damn
unions make baby jesus cry
God bless those of you in warmer climates!
It is currently 22 degrees and breezy in New York City. Factoring in the wind chill, the temperature feels like 10 degrees outside. [I just checked www.weather.com to be sure I wasn’t hallucinating from frostbite.] By the time I reached 14th Street on foot this morning, I realized with a pang in my soul that it was the first time I had ever walked three blocks in the morning without seeing a single bus… The Tranny Strike had gone into effect! Naturally, I was wearing thin wool pants, alligator cowboy boots, my lucky belt buckle, and an insulated Dolly Parton wig, and as I continued block after block, I became certain that the hope of catching a cab was entirely futile. Fools lined the street corners waiting for taxis that never stopped [every car was full], and in a pique of frustration I resolved to walk from my apartment at 11th Street and Avenue A to my office at 42nd Street and Broadway. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Manhattan, this is not a short walk. You have to bisect the lower half of the island diagonally in addition to travelling north 31 blocks. I made the trip in 45 minutes, to the closing notes of Vengelis’ theme from “Chariots of Fire”… pitting out my Miu Miu tuxedo shirt, freezing my delicate thighs to the bone, and losing my wig somewhere between The Empire State Building and Macy’s.
I don’t like cities, but I like New York.
Holy crap, that was like straight out of the J. Petterman catalog from Seinfeld
When you’re the only one who can drive the train…
umm…teamsters strike, they hired non-union drivers…
A strike is a waiting game…the unions vs. the management. If the management can find enough workers, the union loses and takes what they’re offered. If they can’t, then the union wins and they get what they want. There’s a reason they stand outside and hold signs. Unions need people to NOT goto work more than the management needs people to come to work.
The teamsters strike (on Overnite transport) of like 5ish (?) years ago is a perfect example…that shit lasted forever…as each month went by more and more people broke the line and went back to work b/c the union war chest couldn’t pay them to hold the strike any longer.
^ But they are protected from being fired.
until the contract runs out, yes they can go back to their jobs. But they are not being paid to strike
here we go again our economy…good job!
Public workers are fined 25K a day they are on strike, btw.
are they fining the union 1 million a day??
What are there, like 40 workers total?
There are like 33000
lol
Joe you are correct, they are not gauranteed pay for the rest of their life whether they work or not.:roll2:
Maybe someone like you thinks they should get paid even if they choose to strike or fail to negotiate a contract.:gotme:
I seen this
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/12/20/nyc.transit/index.html
“Judge Theodore Jones ruled Tuesday afternoon that the Transport Workers Union was in contempt of a court injunction ordering it not to strike, and he ordered that the union be fined $1 million per day beginning Tuesday”
oh, maybe the union itself. along with the rest of the workers
maybe we won’t lose that much money 
hey… it doesn’t cost you more money and you get exercise? let 'em keep going…
in 20 years (or more) you can say “I lived through the strike of 05-06, I had to walk to work up hill both ways, in the blistering cold. so stop whining about how the hover bus isn’t fast enough!”
and then you give a demeaning “foolish little kids” look…
mmmmm
Of course they do. With overtime of course. They dont do shit. Clean the buses, open and closed the door.