NY Daily News – Michael Goodwin: Union walks, MTA balks & we all pay As the Daily News reported yesterday, one of the great betrayals of the public trust is playing out in secret. Despite a public backlash against the union for paralyzing the city during Christmas week, and despite winning every step of the [...]
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Transit Strike Aftermath – Fire Kalikow NOW
I’m too pissed off to even begin to figure out who should be the featured actor in this snuff film. New York Daily News Editorials: The MTA plays three-card monte The governor’s aides said yesterday that Pataki was absolutely, unequivocally unaware that Kalikow had agreed to a pension giveaway that will enrich as many as [...]
Transit Strike Aftermath – MTA Caves
The Cat Is Now Out of The Bag If Pataki doesn’t shoot this bullshit deal down, he deserves an epically violent public flogging…. I’m talking something that makes what went down in Mel’s “Passion” look like a walk in the park. “The Park” being Central or Prospect during the Dinkins days.       [...]
Transit Strike Aftermath – A Quick Look
Well, the busses and trains are rolling, so let’s take a fast glance at what those three days of screwing the city up actually produced in a “biggest winners/losers” way: Winners: Lawyers. The first of what will probably be zillions of lawsuits has lready been filed by businesses big and small attempting to recoup the [...]
“Screw! They Don’t Pay Dues”
BREITBART.COM: Transit Strike Leaves NYC Homeless in Cold Homeless advocates and city officials say the walkout that has closed the nation’s largest transit system has also potentially displaced hundreds of homeless people who use the subway’s trains, stations and tunnels for shelter, especially during winter. “A lot of people sleep on the trains in the [...]
The Politics of the Transit Strike
As I noted yesterday, the NY Post’s Eric Fettmann points out how Rodger Toussaint is following Mickey Quill’s lead by calling this illegal strike. But that was a different time, and the tactic is doomed to fail for a simple (albeit ridiculous) reason that came to me today: Pataki’s aspirations. He’s been gallivanting around the [...]
An Insanely Stupid Move
This is strange. My father (and a few of my uncles) drove a bus for the city–it was sort of assumed I’d end up driving one, too–so my gut reaction is to back the drivers. Hell, I got the Castleton Depot (whose address Wikipedia has exactly wrong: it’s Castleton/Jewett, you dolts) sitting right down the [...]
