I submit that nowhere on this planet earth is $65,000 a year "scandalously underpaid". If you think that, I can't help you - you need some perspective.
The union is demanding 24% across the board raise over three years - nealry 8% a year. It's outrageous.
The city, which is already going bankrupt, is asking for the employees to contribute just 1% of their salary towards defraying increasing health care costs, which is a small fraction of the yealy increase. The city is also proposing slightly reducing the lavish pension benefits ONLY FOR NEW WORKERS.
Of course, the TWA's pensions are not the only things that are 'lavish'. The TWA has greased the palms of most prominent NY democrats - which explains their resounding silence on this outrage.
I read this headline expecting to read a story about the number of people who have died because their ambulance was stuck in the horrendous traffic. Surely, in a city the size of NY, this has happened dozens of times already. But NO - it's about how a person is almost dead because and evil BROKERAGE firm hired a private bus in subverting the strike.
Outrageous.
-R
Businesses are sueing the Union today......So far one restaurant has filed....