Yes indeed...
Oh man, these people steam my clams.
i came across a paper today and the avg salary of ea. of the 33,000 workers is 47k. i think this is before the self induced OT some of them pad themselves with.
they get to retire at age 55 and get their sweet pension.
That's a lot for the MTA to give them. I personally feel the pension shouldn't go to everyone... which I'm sure it does. I say it should be an 'extra' award to the actual tunnel rats, not those that hold up a sign 'uptown upstairs' crap.
All cops should get pensions, even desk ones cuz if you walk out for a cup of coffee while in uniform and you're a deskjockey, and a gunfight breaks out your ass is a target!
But I'm not so sure about the MTA.
Also no MTA worker contributes to their medical plan!
So that 47k avg. salary is even sweeter.
We all pay a portion of our own plans in private corporations and the premiums increase like 5 to 10pct ea. yr! So if you don't get a raise... you're losing money after every salary review!? nice!
And the tired arguement that they aren't getting the respect = $ these hardworkers are deserving of due to the dangerous conditions they work in....
not all 33k workers are stuffed in those tunnels, and if they weren't an MTA worker,
I'm sure they'd be in construction, maintenance, mechanics, some other physical line of labor, not your next office worker...
go find another company to work for, why aren't you. Not gonna find too many other companies to work for with such a solid roof over itself as the MTA thanks to the cityslickers that need public trans to get to their cyclic balance sheet companies.
the past 10 yrs i learned 'alot' about unions. I had friends from grade school slide into Verizon (Bell Atlantic back then) and we talkin my loser friends that only went up to HighSchool. They pulled 63K back then for working from like 10am to 3pm and I was working 6am to 3am for 55k in my job in the private sector. Cool for them but me as a customer of those services and looking for alternatives/options? If I don't pick up my land line at all in a month, my bill is still like 18bucks!?
And they weren't exactly busting their balls working from 1am to 3pm. One guy actually quit after a few yrs.... but to join another Union, that big contractor one, working on big commerical site/malls.
Then I knew another friend in IT consulting assignment to CON EDISON... another union shop. Lord, he told me all these 'senior' guys come in, do nothing. The whole building, come in, paper, coffee... always talking about their 'side' endeavours and about their retirement savings, pensions etc.
So.... 2 hrs to go, bring it on beeyotches....
dare you to grow the gonads to release a full strike... 2 days pay for ea 1 day baby.
The MTA workers union said today... okay we'll drop our 8PCT raise demand now, if you now drop the penalities activated on us.
Ha??? You offering to trim your demand?
in trade for something you inflicted on yourself?
What the MTA union needs to offer is to give up something you already have to remove the penalties, not from something off the obscene number you demanded??
That's like I'll bet you 2grand that I won't wear my blue shoes today, I'll wear my red ones... when I can control the outcome, why would I help you bet and let you win 2grand?
They really fear having to pay for their actions, so I dare them to strike.
Lastly,
they quoted Rosa Parks today at a statement released to the press...
she had to break the law to rewrite the laws.
and that the transit workers are only doing the same.
Oh lord! you didnt go there did you...
Cheapened her significance and using her recent passing for your cause. You MT workers couldn't carry her jock strap. She was about breaking dumb laws and racial barriers.
You leechers are breaking just laws governing work stoppage of employees servicing the public for the purpose of MO MONEY!
Bring it on! ha ha.
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