IT'S OFF - TWU... uh... UNSTRIKES!!!!

they still need to vote on it. Apparently there is a vote set for this afternoon but I haven't seen what time this is supposed to happen. Anyone know?

Carnivore wrote: [quote=Ben]they still need to vote on it. Apparently there is a vote set for this afternoon but I haven't seen what time this is supposed to happen. Anyone know?

They just voted. 36 yes, 5 no, 2 abstentions. The strike will be over (but they haven't announced when service will be restored).

BAH, beat me to it. NOW (ala kramer) its off.

Anyone else think that the jail time for toussaint was a motivator (not to mention fines for the strikers)?

Candicissima wrote: [quote=Kevin_on_Putnam]Anyone else think that the jail time for toussaint was a motivator (not to mention fines for the strikers)?

No. The contended issue was that the pension was on the table in the negotiations. Once they took it off, the strike was over.
Absolutely. And they took it off the table just one day after all the other municipal unions made statements that the pensions shouldn't even be on table in the first place. They hinted at but did not directly threaten a general strike. Pensions are supposed to be negotiated with all the municipal unions together and then voted on by the legislature. The attempt by the MTA to slip this into the negotiations with the TWU was illegal and thuggish. The state was trying to pick off the unions one at a time, starting with the one with the least public support. You can draw your own conclusions as to why they're the least popular, but I don't think it's "playing the race card" to note that in a poll by NY-1, whites were 3 times as likely as blacks to blame the TWU for the strike.

http://www.ny1.com/ny1/NY1ToGo/Story/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=55816

Kevin_on_Putnam wrote: I beg to differ, nothing is on or off the table, the agreement is simply for the transit workers to return to work while a negotiator hammers out a new contract

http://www.ny1.com/ny1/NY1ToGo/Story/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=55810

Carnivore wrote: [You can draw your own conclusions as to why they're the least popular, but I don't think it's playing the race card to note that in a poll by NY-1, whites were 3 times as likely as blacks to blame the TWU for the strike.

Funny that, eh? :roll:

Alternate Side Parking is back in effect tomorrow (friday)..FYI

Kevin_on_Putnam wrote:
"On Tuesday, the Public Employment Relations Board, acting as a mediator, had denied a union request to remove the pension issue, said a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority."

Since the Taylor law renders pension negotiation by the MTA illegal, its irrelevant. As beaten to death, only the state legislature can do it. Who wants to bet that ass Pataki will ride this one hard and until wet?

I'm still biking to work.

muteflute wrote: [quote=Oiseau]I'm still biking to work.

It's the way to go. I always get where I need to go faster on my own power, which is pretty funny. Although I suppose that if everyone biked, it'd be slow as hell. There's nothing worse than a crowd of slow bicyclists. Fast cars and potholes, I can deal with.

Actually, I revise. The only worse thing are large groups of people walking across bridges. The Hassidic women and their strollers on Wburg, especially. Talk about StrollerUVS. And they don't move for you, either.