NYC transit strike
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- harlequino0
I imagine the negotiations are going like the Bonnie situation:
Jules:
"We don't wanna fuck up your shit."Jimmy:
"You're fucking my shit up right now!"
- fadeproof0
hahahhahah
- Jaline0
yeah, the drivers have to wear casual uniforms. now they just wear casual clothes...
- redFridge0
prob work from home
i would freeze on the street in this gd wind tunnel.
- e-pill0
if this strike actually happens, Mayor Bloomberg should step up and fire the entire 33,000 MTA workers for crippling NYC.
- harlequino0
if this strike actually happens, Mayor Bloomberg should step up and fire the entire 33,000 MTA workers for crippling NYC.
e-pill
(Dec 15 05, 15:59)That's what NYC and the 5 burroughs needs. 33,000 fresh unemployed people, and 33,000 new and completely untrained MTA workers.
- e-pill0
so you are saying its ok for these people to strike and hold a major city almost hostage on the transportation that keeps the city alive...what about the people who are life important like doctors, police officers, firemen, nurses what about them? 33,000 people want better lives and they deserve it, but not by a strike. if someone strikes, and the re-action from their action causes not just financial problems for the city but also life threatening in my eyes they are equal to the terrorists that came in september and murdered innocents!!!!
this happens every single year, every single December this happens where the MTA threatens to go on a strike but at the last second the ysuck it up and cave in and just accept the offers the city makes. but if this keeps happening the MTA never learns and just keeps doing the same thing over and over again.
the current 33,000 need a lesson to be taught to and this is the time where if a strike happens, then the city needs to use equal force back.
- harlequino0
Whoah. Dude.
First, if you've ever dealt with union labor, and I have to the point of exhaustion, you should know damn well that this has absolutely nothing to do with those 33,000 employees. Every NY union is corrupt. It's about them rattling cages. Those employees want this way less than you. During a strike, they don't work, they do not get paid.
Second, you want to talk about crippling the city? Every single one of those employees, if fired, are now entitled to anywhere from 200 to 400 a week in NY state unemployment. Let's tak the low end. If 200 for every person that is 6.6 mil every week until they have new jobs. Now, let's take the average cost of traing new minimum wage personel. Let's say low end 10 bucks an hour, for a two week training period. That's 52.8 million dollars to train personnel, with a grand total of almost 60 mil for that solution.
And we have not added in all the other crap from lost time for the rest of the city and 5 burroughs.
Dontcha think it might be cheaper to send over all the whores and booze they can take to the union officials??
- van_rijn0
if the bossman sais that, you work as normal for an hour at home, then call him up and say your internet connection is down.
now thats if you work on the net :)
- JazX0
haha ohhh sh*t. shut-down to the Bronx
- e-pill0
i clipped these numbers from the article in CNN directly so im not making up the numbers myself, and as i compare the numbers from CNN to your presentation if it costs 60mil in 2 weeks to train and 6.6 after 33K get work in comparison to $400MILLION per day!!!!!
its worth the headache!!!!
Fire them to make an example!here is the numbers-
Economic losses will add to the inconveniences and frustrations, Bloomberg said.
"Our economy would lose about $400 million per day and would particularly hurt the working families who can least afford it, including thousands who work in the tourism and hospitality industries," Bloomberg said. The city government would lose $22 million a day in tax revenue and overtime police expenditures.
In court papers filed Monday it was estimated that a transit strike would have a devastating effect on the city, costing $440 million to $600 million a day in lost business activity.
Overtime for police officers called in during a strike would add another $10 million a day, the court motion said.
here is the link to the article:
http://money.cnn.com/2005/12/15/…
- van_rijn0
i use the LIRR...
wtf...
"A strike fare of $4.00 (each way) will be charged for travel within the city at all times."
- harlequino0
dude, peace and love to you, but...
*walks back into the interdimensional portal clearly labeled "reality"
- JazX0
that's fucking ridiculous. I'll be in Jersey this weekend.
- e-pill0
oh thanks!!
:)
- tkmeister0
yeah, fucked up. MTA does this every fucking year.
and those union workers are actually getting paid really really well from what i heard. WTF!!
- MLP0
if that does go down, how long would it last? it seems like with 85% of the city relying on public transport, they'd get on the ball really fast
- visualplane0
I say penalize whoever is responsible for the strike, and give it to them in the aZZ!
=)
- jteore0
Last MTA stike the city had was in the 80's....it lasted 11 days. 11 days without public transportation. I cannot image this place without it. At least we know where the "shoes with suit" trend started.