New York DUers - Support The TWU

TWU workers are facing stiff fines and penalties.......... You can visit them at their strike locations and thank them for having the courage to strike. The TWU is showing that strikes are not just hollow negotiating ploys or bluffs....... that will help unions everywhere in the future.

For a list of locations click here:

http://twulocal100.blogspot.com/2005/12/twu-local-100-strike-assignments.html

I was at a few locations yesterday and among the chants, and the people yelling, **** Bloomberg and **** Pataki, there were a few supporters yelling, Impeach Bush!!!!!!

If the City isn't doing anything else, let's support the TWU workers and protest the Bush Admin at the same time. (Keep the focus on domestic, economic issues, examples- Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy, outsourcing, New Orleans and the other Gulf states, etc.). It's better than just going out and shopping.

P.S. - Try to reach out and bring your conservative friends...... focus on the economic issues that the poor and middle class have in common.

I just got off the phone with a friend who was saying: "people who clean the stations make $42,000 a year...that's about how much i make - for unskilled labor"

SO i asked if he'd want to quit his job and clean stations for 42,000. Guess what? He said no.

I said so you are jealous that these people make nearly as much as you do.

if affects the future of the city's cops, firefighters, teachers and all other union members.... If we can focus on the broader issues than maybe we wont have half the city pissed off at the Union. 75% of New Yorkers voted for Kerry...... let's remind them of who is in office.

65% of New Yorkers voted for Bloomburg. Whats your point?

New York still voted overwhelmingly Democratic for all the other local candidates and they still dislike Bush. Bloomberg can at least form coherent sentences.

I am not at the keyboard today..... I'm helping family and friends get to work.... and then I am going to the protest sites.... so I will write more when I get back......


The point is go support the workers....... and channel the frustrations of other New Yorkers against something bigger. The workers showed a lot of courage...... if we had this nationwide in 2000 after the chimp stole the election..... things may have turned out differently.

My Dad was with the railroad for 37 years, my brother-in-law is with the LIRR.


I Definately support the TWU.

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the closest depot is more than two miles away from me.

I visited NYC Thanksgiving weekend. A worker took it upon himself to get out of his booth and make sure I'd used the metro machine correctly! What a sweetie!

Any NYC business making tourist dollars owes these workers for the PR job alone. I'm keeping them in my thoughts today.

Get the word out for New Yorkers to help protest.

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Beat those corporate fuckers!!!!!!!!!!

the MTA is a public entity.

sorry, but a strike would have been just as effective AFTER the holidays... it would still paralyze the city and impact the way the TWU expects if it were after Christmas. Striking right before Christmas hurts ALOT of innocent people who own or work in small businesses that get our of ther red because of Christmas sales, it will hurt people who work for hotels and restaurants who make a living off of tips, cab drivers working at night and on weekends, it will keep a lot of people OUT of the city where they would just take in the sights and sounds, see the tree at Rockefeller Center, etc., etc., etc. Trust me, a lot of people who work in retail, restarants and hospitality will lose their jobs becaue of the timing of this strike. It would not have been so after the holidays, and the TWU would have accomplished their ends. I discussed this with quite a few 'working class' people today, and we all agreed on this point. We support their right to strike, but the timing was pretty goddamned selfish.

concerns as well as the Union..... They were negotiating a contract for 2 months and Kalikow showed up on the last day in the last few hours. The Union wasn't the one wasting all that time.

Next time, when someone threatens to strike (MTA or any other union) they won't take it as just a bluff and the decision makers will realize they may have to display more reason and show up for negotiations on time instead of trying to pressure the union at the deadline.

http://twulocal100.blogspot.com/2005/12/twu-local-100-strike-assignments_20.html

There are a few more on the list.