Strike causing "inconvenience"?
The NYTimes is a good paper, but often it shows its class bias. This story about television news coverage of the transit strike says "For television, this transit strike is a G-rated disaster: full crisis coverage without death or destruction, just inconvenience."
Perhaps it is just inconvenient for high-rollers like Katie Couric or the Wall Streeters who, as another Times story says, can wait out the strike in a hotel room. For me, a short transit strike in Washington would also be mere inconvenience: I could work from home.
This strike, however, is far beyond mere "inconvenience" for thousands, if not millions, of New Yorkers. Hourly workers are suffering blows to their pocketbooks right when they're trying to buy Christmas gifts for their children: if the hourly wage earner does not show up to work, she doesn't get paid. Other Times stories quote shopkeepers who say the strike has emptied their stores and that a prolonged strike would keep them from paying rent. Make no mistake, this strike is not causing mere "inconvenience."
I feel the transit workers' plight: what MTA wants will weaken the union. The strike shows how crucial the transit workers are: don't these workers who run New York's vascular system deserve a secure future? They make it possible for the Wall Street titans to make millions while bankrupting their companies. Ironically though, the strike will most harm the very same people it's intended to help: working folks. But unlike the New York Post, I wouldn't necessarily blame the union for this. Frankly, the union, MTA, the mayor, and the governor all look like clowns and goons.
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massysett | 5:55 PM |
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under the present security alerts the pres. of twu should be jailed for assisting the terrorist by preventing movement and jambing all the hiways in the countys of new york city,all people in the nyc area should take a class action suit for all the money they loss during the illeage transit strike, also in order to call for a strike two or more union officials had to agree which now come under the r.i.c.o act and the federal gov. should press charges, not to mention we are under security levels because of all the terrorism and they are endangering all the citizens and turist in new york city all of t.w.u broad should be placed in jail and repay everyone they caused to lose money by not being able to get to work
i am tired and spelled a couple of words wrong
Yes tom, everyone who disagrees with you or pisses you off is a terrorist. Sharp thinking.
