Fire 'em all!
Please send them home...and put Roger Toussant in jail where he belongs.
Uh OH...
The union that crippled New York City's transit system last month with a three-day strike finished voting Friday on the contract deal that ended the walkout.
The results of the vote are scheduled to be announced Friday afternoon.
Members of the Transport Workers Union have until noon to cast a ballot for or against ratification. The results of the referendum are expected to be available to union leaders almost immediately and are likely be announced publicly later in the day.
TWU Local 100 President Roger Toussaint, who persuaded more than 33,000 subway and bus workers to walk off the job in December, has campaigned for a "yes'' vote.
A small faction of union dissenters has opposed it, arguing it makes too many concessions to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
If approved, the contract would go before the MTA's governing board next Wednesday for a second ratification vote.
A final resolution may also hinge on action by state lawmakers, who will be asked to make legal changes necessary to give transit workers a $110 million refund of pension plan contributions.
Aides to Gov. George Pataki had indicated in late December that he was displeased with that aspect of the deal and might veto the legislation, but the MTA has also agreed to pick up the cost of the refunds if the bill fails.
A state judge in Brooklyn also has yet to decide how much of a penalty union leaders and members will face for participating in the strike, which was barred by state law.
Local 100 has already been fined $3 million for the walkout. Penalties have yet to be set for Toussaint and other union chiefs. The city has also sued to recover economic damages related to the strike, which came at the height of the holiday shopping season.
As a person who is making a trip to NY next month... I don't want to walk all the way from Newark.
The contract was widely held as being utterly favorable to the union. If they reject it now, they are demonstrating that they really have no shame.
If they strike again, it will be in the Springtime. There will be no bitter winter weather and Christmas shopping season to act as their enforcer.
These turds really need to be crushed.
Breaking News: Transit Workers Reject Contract Agreement
(New York - WABC, January 20, 2006) - The city's 33,000 union transit workers, one month to the day after they stranded 7 million riders with a crippling three-day strike, voted Friday to reject their new three-year contract.The news is just coming in to the Eyewitness Newsroom the TWU 100 union workers rejected the package offered during negotiations that ended the three day transit strike in December.
Of the 22,451 votes cast, Eyewitness News is told that there were 11,227 yes votes, and 11,234 no votes.
We'll have the latest here as it's available. Hit refresh for updates.
11,227 yes votes, and 11,234 no votes.
Wow, that's close.
looks like this foils obl's plans right now....
This goes well with this thread;
What plagued light rail?
A hungry rat Gnawed cable was responsible for power failure
Typically, when Mother Nature upsets daily schedules or wreaks havoc, she arrives in the form of a major storm.
But it was one of her smaller creatures that brought Metro's two-year-old light rail system to a standstill earlier this week.
"A rat chewed the cable," David Feeley, Metropolitan Transit Authority's vice president of operations, told the agency's board Thursday.
more here; http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.mpl/metropolitan/3599683
Good! I hope this speeds the downfall of all unions.
There should be firings. That'll settle their hash. Start training new employees tomorrow morning.
Screw New Yorkers. They vote for all this left wing crap, let them suffer at the hands of a left wing union.
Ask Star Jones, earlier today she said President Bush and OBL were having a ego contest, so I'm sure she would say there isn't a problem with any contract.....
The wedding band on her finger is alittle to tight and has cut off the blood to her brain.....
Hey, this is N.Y. supporter of unions and liberals and democrats.
They kind folks of gotham will support these miscreants who are only trying to shake the city down for a kings ransom, as if they already didn't get one compared to everyday folks there.
Here in the south we really don't care if N.Y. gets tied up in knots.
Does this mean the nuts that inhabit that nutty place are being inconvenienced by some nutty union?