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December 29, 2005
For NYC readers only
Warning to non-NYC readers: This post may strike you as irrelevant.
Light has begun to shine on the TWU's ill-got deal, and as the NY Post points out, it ain't pretty for the rest of us. Around half of the illegal strikers, fines or not, will be comfortably in the black when they receive pension refunds between $7,000 and $20,000. Altogether, says bus driver John Paul, "It's a very good deal." Indeed. Granted, transit workers now find themselves contributing to health care costs, which the serpentine Mssr. Toussaint claims was a significant concession. (Many of us in the post-GED sector of the workforce disagree.) But we don't need the Manhattan Institute to realize the strike was "worth it" for the TWU - and the threat of a repeat performance a bludgeon in the union's arsenal come the next round of negotiations, in January 2009. And, by the way, there's a real possibility any fines were negotiated into oblivion, which will make John Paul and his cohorts giddy.
Black or white, thuggery lives. The NYP points out the pension raid is illegal, but then what's the difference? So was the strike, and neither New York's Incredible Disappearing Governor nor the legislature will be interested in enforcing the prohibition. And Elliot Spitzer is too busy shaking down Wall Street.
Posted by bill at December 29, 2005 10:20 AM
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