So anyone living in the strike ridden areas??
The cabbies there are gonna make a fortune for the holidays!
And the poor-poor folks aren't gonna be able to get anywhere!!

link:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10466982/

MSN's coverage of it:

If the cabbies are making a lot then expect the strip clubs to be fucking insane. Because in manhatten after 10 PM EVERY Arab cab driver in the city (roughtly 6 million) retreat to strip clubs I kid you not!

can we keep this on topic...please?

thank you
~jordyn~

didn't new york transit workers strike a couple of months ago, it seems they resolved it at that time...i guess not up to their standars, how much does the average transit worker get paid?

Thank you Jordyn, the size of my city had nothing to do with the topic, but being overwhelmed by the holidays in my ---"reletively sized"--- city, does.
I'm sure they get paid alot.

can i break in here for a moment.. how did the nyc strike turn into a how big cities are debate?

all cities become hell during the holidays, my town is nowhere near a city size, but it takes twice the time to drive across town as it would to walk, if it wasn't so bloody cold...

in that scope, i feel almost sorry for the people of new york...i remember a few years what a taxi cost in chicago, i can just imagine what it costs there.

sometimes it's better to not ask...

yes i see as i read on.. I will stick with what the original ? was.. I live in Memphis but was reading about NYC.. I read that one cab turned his meter off and is just charging $10 a person.

"There were hundreds of people waiting for cabs, pulling doors left and right," said taxi driver Angel Aponte, who left his meter off and charged $10 per person.

well, at least their expressing a little holiday consideration...at ten dollars a ride they'll probably make a killing...

i don't understand the point of striking really...i mean, sure you may get a big pay raise, but what do you do to support yourself and your family in the mean time, i could never go on strike, i'd end up in debt.

i asked for it to be kept on topic, you are not helping nor offering anything to the discussion at hand. so please observe such requests.

thank you
~jordyn~

You are right.. it is from my understanding if you are in union you get paid if you are not union you don't get paid.. i could be wrong though..

now i can see why so many businesses are not fond of unions...i was a member of a union for awhile working at a jewel/osco...i loved it, our rep would stop by once a week to give us a little schedule record book, his card for any problems we had and make sure we had the union book stating our rights as an employed member of their union.

they were always so nice...unlike the job i'm at now, we don't even get time in a half for working christmas...the nazis!

oh damn.. yeah that sucks.. the job my husband works at they have union but he said no he don't want to be part of it.. but he has friends that are and they do the same.. the rep comes in and talks with the union and give out cards and then leave.. they can be cool. but the strike thing is the only bad part... you on strike you have to picket all that fun stuff..lol

Unions are good and bad. I work for oranized labor. I support the right to organize and collectively bargain and everything. But This is a differnt situation alltogether. In MOST cases like 99 out of 100 a union striking its memebers will hurt the companies they work for. In this case the Union is literally holding the city ransom. 50+ % of people in NYC ride the MTA as thier main method of getting to work. This is not honorable and its drawing more hatred to unions.

so is it the union that arranges the strike, or is it the employees?

union

billy got a good point there..

Its always the union. They do all the meetings and salary raises and stuff for the workers, and if a deal cannot be met they stir the hornests nest and set everyone up on a strike.

this got me curious to understand the reason for this strike even more...while it seems most people are eager to demonize new york for them not wanting to pay transit workers...i read a few articles and actually have to agree with the idea that it is rather selfish and thoughtless for them to punish people who make less than them and don't have the luxury of a union to intercede for them...

"Bruce Gilmore, of Queens, was hoping a strike could be avoided. He only makes $10 an hour, he said, and it would cost him $15 each way to take a cab and a commuter train."

http://cbs2.com/topstories/topstorie...349125233.html

now this guy, has a genuine issue...however those who make twenty or more dollars an hour are crying foul?

"And conservatives like Galt act like these transit workers are somehow living high off the hog. As these wage rates show(a link that doesn't work) a station agent makes only $20.01 per hour, hardly amazing money in a city like New York where housing costs can run to $1600 for a single room. Better paid train operators make only $24.35 per hour-- about $50,000 per year."

http://www.nathannewman.org/log/archives/000629.shtml

now this nathan newman seems fond of them and their striking, i wonder what he makes and hour?

as much as i dislike rich politicians, i have to agree with their mayor on this sentiment

"For their own selfish reasons, the TWU has decided that their demands are more important than the law, the city and the people they serve," the mayor added. (Watch the mayor vow to hit the union hard -- 3:12)"

http://www.ksbitv.com/home/2095477.html

i could understand when our little bus system we have here went on strike, they were barely making ten dollars and hour...true, the cost of living here is lower than i imagine in new york city, but our transit workers actually make doorway pick ups, requested dropoffs and are more like a cheap community taxi than any actual transit system...

new york...go figure?