Posted on 12/25/2005 11:03:21 PM PST by indcons
Patricia and Santana Bonilla live a half-block from the staircase to an el that had no trains Tuesday.
The el stop is at Knickerbocker Avenue and Myrtle Avenue. Without the life of the city on its rails, the el was desolate at a place that is usually throbbing.
In this strike, you follow the silent tracks into places where most are without money and find so many being strangled by landlords.
The Bonillas are on the first floor of an old frame house on Himrod Street in Bushwick, in Brooklyn.
The husband and wife are both 48, from Mexico and speak almost no English. They are short and smiling and stood in their apartment yesterday with their hands in zipper jackets.
He couldn't go to work Tuesday.
"No train," he said. "No nothing."
"Oh, it is impossible to go to anywhere," Juana Castro, the young woman in the next apartment, said.
She was translating for him. "I am Dominican," she cried.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
Didn't see this article posted either.
Like him or don't like him, Breslin is a NYC treasure.
As for illegals, it's virtually impossible to be an illegal and in the union.
"As for illegals, it's virtually impossible to be an illegal and in the union."
I was referring to Senors Bonilla and Castro. Wasn't clear enough in my posting.
Oh, the Breslin piece didn't come up. So I wasn't able to read it.
Dominicans tend to be legal, though I'm not sure what the immigration laws are regarding the D.R.
One of the things about unionized NYC is that there are relatively few jobs for illegals in the construction trades. They exist, but not in the numbers you'd think. That's one reason why there is a heavy influx of illegals in the surrounding 'burbs, like Long Island.
No he isn't.
You never saw him at Costello's
What'd I miss?
Without reading the aricle I can only state for the record that most of the striking workers are member of "minorities" themselves, as is their immigrant leader, M. Toussaint (sp?). Like most lefties they claim they are for the poor man, the working man (or woman), and like most lefties they screw these poor workers every chance they get.
What ended the strike? I don't know what the MSM pundits like Mr. Breslin (and yes, he is a wee Irish treasure, he is) are saying, but the fact of the matter is that the Union realized that about 7 million people hated their guts and would have been happy to see the workers fired, a la Reagan, and their blow hard leaders put in jail.
And race had nothing to do with that.
Breslin ... it figures! Finding controversay where none existed before ..... /chuckle
What'd I miss?
NYC the way it was meant to be.
Send their asses back. End of story.
That's the amusing thing about leftists. Eventually they run out of politically incorrect groups to blame for the problems they create, and so they start eating their own.
Preposterous? You are much too charitable. Breslin is a race-mongering blowhard. He has been getting away with it for too damn long and it's time someone gave him a good, hard slap.
Regarding the 6%:
"Under a transit authority proposal, new employees would contribute 6 percent of their salaries to their pension funds, instead of the current 2 percent. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority withdrew a proposal to increase the retirement age from 55 to 62."
If they want to retire when they are 55, someone has to pay for it.
Pretty much.
Hispanics, the majority of, are usually either dominican (and mostly legal) or Puerto Rican (always legal) in NYC.
There is no such thing as an "Illegal Puerto Rican immigrant".
That said, unions in NYC (like their counterparts in Boston) do tend to discriminate against minorities.
But because of the money they put in politicians pockets, its often overlooked.
I know guys in constructions unions who tell horror stories about it.
NYC Public unions are a different story altogether though from private unions.
No, he is not.
He is a nasty drunk who thinks we should ban dogs as pets and have them shot.
Granted, when he said that, he was drunk, but he is a nasty piece of work, hostile to everyone, liberal to the core, and a race baiter to boot.
His writing style has some kind of name for it when you write journalistic articles in the style of fiction (he considers himself a literary journalistic pioneer).
If you ever have the sad luck of meeting him, avoid talking to him, he is spitefull and bitter, and drunk off his rear end.
The guy needs to visit AA one of these days.
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