Posted on 12/23/2005 2:26:11 PM PST by chet_in_ny
Edited on 12/23/2005 4:36:18 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Putting New York through hell for three days, just before Christmas?
Just what exactly did you gain for your members by doing that?
Everyone knows you couldn't give a hoot about what you did to the city.
But what about your own members?
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Right on the money! I heard that even the 3 liberal NY papers blasted the union on this one. What selfish pigs, holding an estimated 7 million people hostage in the peak of the holiday rush. I hope Toussaint does go to jail, or the message will be that the law has no teeth. Further, every member who took his walking orders must be harshly penalized, and the few with the guts to cross picket lines should be rightly rewarded.
Good job. Keep the spotlight on those bums.
I heard some union puke say that they had "gained respect" by striking. I know I sure have a lot of respect for them.
/S
Excellent article!
That Judge seemed pretty good too, in the little clip I saw on the news. And the Judge was a black guy, so no playing the race card in his courtroom.
Who got hurt by this, rich people? No, the poor and the middle class.
I think Toussaint caved when he watched the news and saw the "workers of the world" were against him and against his union members; saw them as pampered cry babies; and where ready to throw the lot of them in jail and/or on the unemployment line!
I even saw some guy on the news say he wished Reagan was around to fire them all. Since he was a NYer, he could have been a pubbie, but maybe he wasn't even. But he was walking across the Brooklyn Bridge in 22 degree weather, and he looked about 60 years old.
Remember this union is made up of working-class blacks.The liberal media has difficulty with WORKING blacks.
Brilliant, informative and easy to read. Excellent.
not CBS2NY - tonight they had an editorial comparing Toussant to Nelson Mandela. unreal.
Uhm...I'd just like to admit that I was wr wr wro wro wrong. There I said it! LOL. I know nothing about NYC or the MTA or the strike and should have listened to the wise and enlightened Durasell.
apologies for the interuption, but I lost a bet ;)
what was your prediction?
I thought it would last until Monday myself.
let's see what the actual deal is, then we will know who got rolled.
I want to see groups of NYC businesses who suffered sales loss sue the Union into dust to recoup their lost revenue due to their illegal actions.
It shouldn't be too difficult to assess the financial damages for these businesses. Make the Union liable for the loss.
If I was mayor/President of the MTA:
I would sue the union for economic damages. The strike cost was estimated at $400 million per day. I would sue the union for that plus treble damages. $1.2 billion dollars per strike day to be used to offer financial relief to damaged business, reduce the general tax burden and increase the starting pay of police officers to equal that of transit workers. And I would dock 10% of striking workers pay until it was paid in full.
The day they went on strike I would have taken out full page ads in all 3 NY dailies: "Now hiring: Train operators, booth operators, bus drivers and mechanics. Excellent pay, great benefits" and immediately started replacing them. I would bet that the 90% plus of striking workers would be back on the job in no time flat. And any new hires would be kept at the expense of the last to come back to work...those replaced before returning to work would be SOL.
Wow, a man (or woman) of his/her word!
All you have to know about NYC labor, politics, business, real estate, art and transportation is this: it's never the principle of the thing, it's the money.
As long as their are unions in the US organized crime will never be dead.
"what was your prediction?"
That the workers would be fired. Durasel predicted the strike would be over before week's end.
Yes, gotta love that judge!
For Toussaint and his foot soldiers to say they're doing this for the working people, they ought to meet that guy braving sub-freezing temperatures on the Brooklyn Bridge to get to work. And the many others - as you said, poor and middle class - whose commutes became a nightmare because of his selfish - and yes, thuggish - actions. And the workers trying to eke out a living selling holiday merchandise, who had no buyers because of the strike. Working people? Time for a barf break.
I missed that, and it's a good thing or I'd be sick to my stomach.
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