Forum Post: Public Employees' Unions as Allies
Posted 12 years ago on Jan. 13, 2012, 3:09 a.m. EST by FHampton
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New York's own Transport Workers Union Local 100 has a contract expiring on Jan. 15th. This union is very sensitive to the needs of its rank and file and is speaking up on behalf of workers around the country as well as the public who uses the subways and buses of New York--while enduring fare hikes. Check out this article from the union's President, John Samuelsen, on the need for workers' right to strike.
http://labornotes.org/2012/01/public-employees-need-right-strike
I would support these workers 100% if they went on strike.
Thanks, very valuable info!
From another article on the contract:
"The collective bargaining agreement between Transport Workers Union Local 100 and the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), covering the subway and bus workers of New York City, expires January 15. Like public-sector workers everywhere, we face a withering attack on our compensation, benefits and collective organization. The Transit Authority’s demands represent major pay cuts, full-time job cuts and workplace destabilization for workers--with no offer of compensation or trade-off."
http://socialistworker.org/2012/01/11/looming-battle-in-nyc-transit
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Everything we do is for our union brothers and sisters. Our taxes support and nurture their struggle to provide a decent wage and retirement for themselves! We sacrifice that they may prosper!
You are hilarious.
LOL, pearls before swine. )
LOL, off your knees, Koch whore.
Will you ever get enough of sucking Soros' crusty, diseased asshole? Do you swallow the butt chunks or let them slide off your scraggly beard? :)
That's your analysis? You have no clue about how the world works. Move along.
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Apparently not. :)
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Cutting and pasting, that'll show 'em! :)
I support them. Absolutely.
Opponents of public worker unions pit the people who use the public service against workers by arguing that wage increases must be paid for by tax hikes, service cuts or, in our case, a fare hike. But that argument obscures more than it reveals, too.
Local 100 has shown many ways a decent contract can be paid for without having to raise fares. We’ve fought for a saner tax structure, one where those who make more than $1 million per year are taxed more heavily to keep senior centers open, school aides employed, and buses and subways running.