NY Strike On
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- adamfinger0
All big strikes inconvenience the towns or cities they take place in. When auto-workers strike, the small towns that the plants are situated in come to a grinding halt as all local businesses rely upon the auto-workers for their patronage.
Every bit of progress we have made in this country has been due to civil disobedience. And in every case, the media and government officials have been oppositional. Not until later (sometimes decades later) do those actions get recognized--and even then, history pretends like progress just happened, rather than fought for and earned.
The few days of inconvienence that this will cause is worth it. The MTA has a billion dollar surplus and can't even give their workers a modest raise. That's criminal.
Additionally, if a strong union like the TWU can't even hold onto their hard-earned benefits like their pension and healthcare, what chance do other workers have. Just because designers have to pay for everything out of pocket have no job security doesn't mean it should be that way.
We shouldn't be resentful that they have good benefits and semi-decent pay (not everyone is making top dollar like the media would have us believe), we should try to fight for that in our industry and in other industries.
Support the TWU. Make a small gesture. Go to the nearest picket location and offer them coffee or donuts, go to the rallies, contact your local media. If the TWU loses this battle, we all lose.