NO TIMETABLE?? WE WANT THOSE SUBWAYS OPEN NOW!!
Posted on 12/22/2005 8:09:56 AM PST by areafiftyone
After meeting with both sides through the night, state mediators have devised a preliminary framework for a settlement of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority contract dispute that would allow strikers to return to work later today, according to four people close to the negotiations.
The people emphasized that the details of a final settlement would take at least a day or two longer to be finalized, although buses and subways would be running before that.
The agreement, they said, would give every side some of what it asked for.
It would allow Gov. George E. Pataki to save face because the final negotiations would not take place until the strikers return to work, the people said, and it would apparently allow the union's president, Roger Toussaint, to save face because, they believe, the authority's pension demands - which are at the crux of the deadlock - have been significantly scaled back.
The mediators were appointed by the state's Public Employment Relations Board on Tuesday afternoon after the union declared a strike at 3 a.m. that day and the authority said the talks had reached an impasse.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Here should be the settlement, "get back to work and we may not fire you".
If the pension demands are significantly scaled back, it is a win for the union thugs and the chief thug Toussaint. The MTA needs to hold the line on this. Period.
He should not be allowed to save face, he should be forced to step down for authorizing an illegal strike.
GIT BACK TO WORK OR YOU'RE FIRED. AND BY THE WAY, YOU'LL BE GETTIN' A PAY CUT.
They should have taken a page from Ronald Regan and fired their asses.
By DAVID B. CARUSO
Associated Press Writer
Dec 22 11:10 AM US/Eastern
NEW YORK - Transit workers will take steps to restore service to New York's buses and subways while the union and transit authority resume negotiaitons after a three-day strike, a state mediator announced Thursday morning.
No timetable was announced for the restoration of service.
GO BACK TO WORK RIGHT NOW, AND IF YOU GUYS DO A VERY VERY GOOD JOB, YOUR CHANCES OF BEING FIRED GO DOWN TO 95%!
Just another reason to never visit new york........
NO TIMETABLE?? WE WANT THOSE SUBWAYS OPEN NOW!!
I like the solution seen on Letterman. All subway trains are now "U-Drive-Em".
Too late to save the small business owners in the city, the season is lost! A very sad and irresponsible move by the Union Thugs! Put them in jail! They could have waited till after the Holidays to strike.
what is the liklihood that the $2 million fine will be imposed now. so much for the rule of law.
There was a guy who didn't even need an invitation!
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That's Bull! Philadelphia just had one too. You wouldn't go there either? What's that got to do with visiting here? This city is a dynamite place to visit. Now Living here is a whole other story! LOL
During times like these I'm glad I live in the suburban sprawl and drive a gas-guzzling SUV.
No Republican since Reagan has had the guts to do that, especially not Pataki. Taxpayers get screwed again; lazy union thugs get their fat retirements in Miami, where they can pester and demand things from different people until they die.
People who depend on unions for sustenance or transportation are fools, period.
Some of us get mild pleasure out of watching the union-loving liberals of NY suffer. We don't like seeing you conservative New Yorkers suffer though.
I actually liked the last visit I made to my mother's aunt in Philadelphia.
It would have been perfect...if we hand't been forced to make a detour through Camden.
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