NY MTA Transit Strike!!!
batmon
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Any NYC heads worried about this supposed strike? The city is gonna really be crippled.
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it'll be hell, plus it's supposed to rain tomorrow.
I have to run to costco to stock up for hibernation.
11:00pm. Its way too brick to walk.
I will be sleeping in the city tonight, but at some point the god has to go home...
Im tryin' to stay home tommorrow, but my boss aint havin' it.
All of sudden my throat/stomach/head feels funny.
glade plugins in good records......or better yet nag champa for that blowout comb on the wall.
I dont remember that 89 threat getting the same media as this one. Mta workers are really gettin' fucked like the teachers.
I planned to take tomorrow off weeks ago, so I'm chillingggg in Brooknam tomorrow.
I'm supposed to feel sorry for a guy that makes 46 grand base salary plus overtime and has better benefits than me (shit, has benefits period) while leaving folks ass out who make half that?
Fuck them dudes man. Fuck the MTA too, but I'm saying. Theatrics and shit.
that makes so much sense, yet would never happen here due to the greedy bastards running this operation.
If there is a strike, i'm staying home and watching the Rambo trilogy.
MTA workers start at 46 grand a year?
who's that? conductors? drivers? bus?
that's nice!
Obviously they are important to the people of New York and therefore their rights and wages shouldn't be trampled on.
They didn't get benefits and a good salary by saying "fuck everyone who has a good job". They united and fought for that shit. Same goes for the shit that you enjoy today, like a 9-5.
I think what they do in Italy is a great way to strike and not paralyse ordinary working people.
I run my own business, I don't "enjoy" a 9-5. I "enjoy" whatever money I can make through my own means. Vastly prefer it that way, but then I have very little sympathy for someone who drives trains for 46 and better a year, gets paid vacation, full medical and dental benefits, paid sick days, paid overtime, a pension and retirement.
I'm all for uniting and fighting for a good salary. I'm not for uniting and fighting an already-in-debt city service that 90% of the residents here depend on for a salary that is already well above the average starting pay for white collar, let alone blue collar, jobs.
What rights and wages are they being denied that are worth this? If I and others can't get into our jobs tomorrow, lose money, lose hours, lose customers - and MTA employees get more pension, more salary, less supervision - would that be worth fighting for?
It's better to ask the question "why is our city in such debt?" than to work around the debt it is already in. I agree, that a city is struggling and it seems absurd to allow transit workers to strike for wages better than the majority. However, it's much more absurd to allow such a prosperous city (and I believe New York is the single most prosperous city in America, and maybe even the world? Correct me if I'm wrong) to get into debt like this.
It's not about denying those rights. It's about showing the city how important transit workers are.
In the last 20 years, most strikes around the world have not been fought for increasing benefits. They are usually fighting for the status quo (or to keep up with inflation).
Can't say much more because I don't know the specific conditions surrounding the strike (just read a little bit on google news).
BUT.
Who gets the short end of the stick? Working people man. People who make far less than your average MTA employee. Them folks are losing work over UNION motherfuckers bickering with CORPORATE motherfuckers. They're all motherfuckers.
Everytime there is a strike people say it's just the "union beaurocrats wanting fatter paycheques". While this may be the case sometimes, it's not always the case. Probably more times than not.
As for hurting regular working people, there has already been discussed a method of avoiding this.
This is misinformed, but I'm sure you're just ranting. Starting salary for them is low and was just made lower in the previous round of negs, same as police and fire. Public services are slowly being dismantled and civil society is gonna look very different in the next 50 years. It's not really a time to bitch about unions, they're your last hope for continuing capitalist democracy, which you kind of need for your business to survive. Me, I don't give a shit, I'm taking up driftwood carving and staying at home.
edit: i was referring to your 46k example
OK, then what is their starting salary? Everything I've read and heard leads me to believe it is in the 40s, starting salary for police and fire is like 18k a year.
Low 20s I think. The main problem with the unions is they have been making shady deals in exchange for sweeter pension plans which only the older members will be able to get. 20-30 years from now it'll all be gone, and the younger members, ie the ones that are actually on the trains and in the ticket booths are getting the shaft.