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The Transit Strike in New York City is proving why government Unions DO NOT WORK.

There was once a time when Labor Unions did a good job of protecting the workers from corrupt management and dangerous conditions. Welcome to the Bizarro World. The management isn’t corrupt, conditions aren’t dangerous anymore and it is the Union that is corrupt and causing a dangerous working condition (if you’re funding the business).

The New York City Transit Strike is exposing the danger of putting unions in vital infrastructure. Just as Ronald Reagan did in the 1980’s with the Air Traffic Controllers. ALL of the striking Union members should be FIRED!

Reports are saying that NYC is expected to lose $400 Million dollars per day.

When the dust settles from this insanely stupid labor union strike, hopefully the good sensible folks in New York demand that the city government FIRES everyone who striked. The days of forced child labor and 16 hour days are over, mostly due to labor union advances in a bygone era.

Fox News: New York City Transit Strike Talks Down to Wire

CNN: New York City Transit Strike

Transit workers want 8 percent annual raises over three years, and contend they should get a share of the MTA’s unexpected $1 billion surplus this year. And after the transit bombings in Madrid and London, they also want more terrorism training, saying they feel unprepared to handle disasters.

The agency has proposed 6 percent raises spread over 27 months, and says the surplus is not likely to happen again and needs to go toward future expenses. Deficits are predicted for upcoming years.

A strike could be costly for the union, too. A walkout would be illegal under state law, and the workers could face tough penalties. Strengthening the transit agency’s hand, a judge issued an injunction Tuesday that bars the workers from striking.

They could lose two days’ pay for every day on strike. And the city is asking for additional damages against individual transit workers: $25,000 for the first day of the walkout, doubling each day thereafter. The city is also seeking damages from the union of $1 million for the first day, doubling thereafter in a similar pattern.

Overtime for the police alone would cost $10 million a day, the city says, since officers would have to maintain order in the streets.

They could lose two days’ pay for every day on strike.

Legal. Shmegal! What’s the law if you can’t cowardly strike so you can get raises that are over twice the rate of inflation. I wish I was lucky enough to only lose two days pay for every day I was on strike. If I went on strike for stupid reasons like the NYC Transit Union I’d not only be fired, I’d be effectively blackballed from any job in that field ever again.

The two Queens bus lines, Jamaica Buses Inc. and Triboro Coach Corp., employ about 750 union members and carry about 50,000 riders. They are being taken over by the MTA but are not yet covered by the state’s Taylor Law, which outlaws strikes by public employees.

“It is a little unsettling to be the first wave,” union officer George Jennings, representing bus maintenance workers, said Sunday. “It’s going to be a rough deal. Nobody wants to go on a strike on Christmas.”

Nobody wants to go on a strike on Christmas. Nobody except the Transit Union wants to go on strike right now. Personally I think some in the cowardly transit Union are secretly loving the chaos. They are feeling good that their “strike for worker justice” can affect so many people. I hope a court in New York City Court orders all of the strikers fired from their jobs. It would be a fitting end to a pathetic and illegal power grab by the NYC Transit Union.

FIRE ALL OF THE STRIKERS!