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NYC Transit Union Goes on Strike
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NYC Transit Union Authorizes Subway Strike By DESMOND BUTLER, Associated Press Writer
Sat Dec 10,10:51 PM ET



NEW YORK - New York City transit workers voted Saturday to authorize a strike that could shut down bus and subway service at the height of the holiday shopping season.



Thousands of members of Transport Workers Local 100 voted unanimously to authorize their leaders to call a walkout if the union and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority can't agree on a new contract by midnight Thursday, when the current contract expires.

MTA officials said they were optimistic an agreement would be reached.

State law prohibits strikes by public employees, and union workers would face huge fines if they walked off the job. The last strike by city transit workers was in April 1980, when they halted mass transit for 11 days.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who often rides the subway to City Hall, said Friday that he hopes the strike talk is just a negotiating technique. He said a mass transit shutdown would be devastating to the city's economy, particularly at this time of year.

The system shuttles more than 7 million riders throughout the city on an average day.

The MTA last week offered a two-year proposal that would give workers a 3 percent raise in the first year and a conditional raise of 2 percent the second year, but the union rejected it.

Union officials are publicly calling for 8 percent wage increases each year for three years. President Roger Toussaint said Saturday that the 38,000-member union, which has had three-year contracts in the past, wouldn't accept a two-year pact.

"Why would they want to put New Yorkers through this every two years?" he asked.

Toussaint also accused the MTA of ignoring safety concerns raised by the union.

MTA spokesman Tom Kelly said in a statement that the union had authorized the strike before making a counteroffer to the MTA's proposal.

Wayne Friedman, a train operator who took part in Saturday's vote, said a strike was a real possibility.

"In my opinion, the union is absolutely serious about striking this time," he said. "If they negotiate fairly, we won't have that problem."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051211/ap_on_re_us/nyc_transit_talks



Replace the sorry fuckers with new hires no pension liability and start at the bottom of the scale. give them 401k and make them pay for some of their health care. they want to go from $50,000 a year to $63,000 for driving a bus??????? FUCK THEM


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Re: NYC Transit Union Goes on Strike [Re: lonestar2004]
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We almost had one in the summer.. I'm so glad it didn't happen..

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Re: NYC Transit Union Goes on Strike [Re: Bhairabas]
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what do people do? walk?

I wonder what the temperature is in New York city today?


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We have "reckless fiscal policies"

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Americans deserve better

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Re: NYC Transit Union Goes on Strike [Re: lonestar2004]
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It's fucking freezing


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Re: NYC Transit Union Goes on Strike [Re: zappaisgod]
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zappaisgod said:
It's fucking freezing


Yes it fucking is.


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Re: NYC Transit Union Goes on Strike [Re: Ancalagon]
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so the Union has the city by the Balls.


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We have "reckless fiscal policies"

America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.

Americans deserve better

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Re: NYC Transit Union Goes on Strike [Re: lonestar2004]
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Not exactly. They're not even that unified
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_354094519.html
"(CBS) NEW YORK The international arm of the Transport Workers Union is stunned and angry that its Local 100, representing New York subway and bus workers, turned down a contract offer from management and ordered its members to walk off their jobs, CBS2 News has learned.

Sources within other large public employee unions tell CBS2 reporter Marcia Kramer that the TWU's international leadership is considering taking over the local and seeking a settlement with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Those sources say the upper level of the TWU thinks the MTA's latest offer is fair and worthy of further consideration and negotiation. They stand against a militant faction within Local 100 that pressed hard for a strike."

Further there is also the issue of this being an illegal job action.

"It is illegal for mass transit workers to strike in New York, which means the 33,000 bus and subway employees will incur huge fines -- two days pay for each day on strike."
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_353234529.html


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Re: NYC Transit Union Goes on Strike [Re: lonestar2004]
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Those motherfuckers are totally screwing up my holiday plans.


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what's with neocons and the word 'ilk'?

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Re: NYC Transit Union Goes on Strike [Re: Gijith]
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Gijith said:
Those motherfuckers are totally screwing up my holiday plans.


thats what we get (all over America) for ALLOWING THE FUCKING MARXIST UNIONS IN THE FIRST PLACE!


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We have "reckless fiscal policies"

America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.

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Re: NYC Transit Union Goes on Strike [Re: lonestar2004]
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Well no one 'allowed' this. What they are doing is illegal.


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Re: NYC Transit Union Goes on Strike [Re: lonestar2004]
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The union is now being fined $1 million per day. I can't believe that any workers would support using their hard-earned union dues to pay for this...especially when they are treated very well by the city as it is. This is a huge slap in the face to the government and taxpayers of NYC since they support the transit system which gives many good paying jobs and benefits to lower-skilled employees.

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Re: NYC Transit Union Goes on Strike [Re: Catalysis]
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Maybe they deserved a raise?

Seems like a raise of 3% a year and a 2% conditional raise after that would barely keep up with inflation.


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...most subjects find the experience valuable, some find it frightening, and many say that is it uniquely lovely.

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Re: NYC Transit Union Goes on Strike [Re: badchad]
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I believe the last offer was 3,4,& 3.5 for each of three years. Also a big deal for the union is retirement age which is currently 55. Too low if you ask me. Let's be very clear here. We're not talking geniuses and anybody who scores one of these jobs is earning far beyond what they would earn in a free market.


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Re: NYC Transit Union Goes on Strike [Re: zappaisgod]
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Public workers almost always, work a little and get paid a lot.

Imagine the yearly salry with benefits.

I agree about unions being bullies now and not doing the TRUE job they were formed for. Union is on a upper tier when compared to what the average workingman gets in Labor Laws etc from our government.

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Re: NYC Transit Union Goes on Strike [Re: rawtoxic]
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I have never, not once, seen a transit worker perform any act that might be characterized as hustling. Except for the three card monte games they run at Union Square.


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