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Table 5 · 12-21-2005, 07:18 AM

I FRIGGIN HATE UNIONS.

snappyk · 12-21-2005, 07:24 AM

Well good for you Table, want to elaborate a little or are you just saying you hate unions for fun?

Lanny_MacDonald · 12-21-2005, 07:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Table 5

I FRIGGIN HATE UNIONS.

I'm with you! I hate ONIONS too! Unless they are breaded and deep fried, then they are really good, especially when you dip them in mustard! Mmmmmm, onion rings! I could really go for a big burger and ...

UNIONS! You said UNIONS!!! Sorry, my bad. Continue on.

Cowperson · 12-21-2005, 07:34 AM

I think Table 5 lives in New York and he probably wrote that on his blackberry as he was walking 100 blocks in thigh deep snow to work.

Cowperson

ken0042 · 12-21-2005, 07:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Lanny_MacDonald

I'm with you! I hate ONIONS too!

That's too funny. I first read it as "Onions" as well. But I was just reading something on theonion.com

BlackArcher101 · 12-21-2005, 12:28 PM

Indeed, he is in NY. I feel for ya Table 5. The only thing that Union is doing is hurting the community and their chances of getting a better deal. Why would a Union pull an illegal strike? All it does is **** of others even more, and it''s not like you can use it as a bargaining chip.

Dumbest unclassy move by a Union I've ever seen.

Reaper · 12-21-2005, 12:43 PM

Yesterday, the New York Transit Workers' Union went on an illegal strike or, as I like to call it, "How to get punched in the face by seven million people the next time you go to work."

Neeper · 12-21-2005, 01:21 PM

Hmm looks like I have to cab it everywhere when I am there?

CMPunk · 12-21-2005, 08:49 PM

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Hmm looks like I have to cab it everywhere when I am there?

LOL good luck tryin to get a cab. You're just visiting, it's the residents that will leave you beaten and bloody if you try and take thier cab

Cowperson · 12-22-2005, 09:18 AM

Looks like a mediator has put together a framework for a deal . . . . strike might end by this evening.

However, the New York Times with a piece today outlining how the transit union grossly overplayed its hand:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/22/ny...5fNqB1d5hqOVHw

Cowperson

Table 5 · 12-22-2005, 07:08 PM

ok, so its 9pm at nite, and Im sittin at my office computer because I simply can't get home. The strike is over, but the trains are still down, and getting a cab is absolutely impossible if you are a man of one and want leave Mahattan right now. I just spent the last 30 minutes outside hailing about 10 different cabs, and none of em even wanted to consider taking me, never mind negotiate a price. Nevermind the fact that they are gouging people, now they are selectively gouging.

If only I didnt live a 3 hour walk away to Brooklyn. Now I have to wait till 11-12pm, till traffic dies down and cabbies finally start accepting singles.

$^#@!#!~

Table 5 · 12-22-2005, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by New York Times

In an impassioned news conference, Mr. Toussaint invoked the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks as he sought to rally his troops, and New Yorkers, in effect portraying the strike as a civil rights campaign to help a work force that is largely black and Hispanic.

Mr. Toussaint also sought to throw Mayor Bloomberg and Gov. George E. Pataki on the defensive by asserting that the dispute was essentially a showdown between hard-working New Yorkers struggling to make ends meet and a moneyed establishment. At the head of that establishment, Mr. Toussaint said repeatedly, is a billionaire mayor, out of touch with working-class New Yorkers.

You dumb twat. The people who are suffering the most during this thing ARE the working class. Do you really think rich millionaires are the ones who live way the hell out in the Bronx and Queens and ride the buses and trains everyday? Are they the ones who can't afford to take days of work because it will hit them big in the pocket book, and then have to pay atleast 20 bucks to get to work?

This guy is a total tard. He tries to use race as a weapon in a war about money and pensions? Meanwhile the first part of the union they put on strike was a Queens bus line, in a part of town that is largely hispanic, black and every other minority.

Vulcan · 12-22-2005, 07:42 PM

Hating unions is pretty simple but maybe some of your anger should be directed at your Mayor. It takes two to tango.
As far as the union overplaying it's hand, it's the perfect time to cause the most disruption. I even heard on Fox News [I look at it occasionaly to get properly outraged] that the union fines are not usually enforced by any judges as they are elected and don't want to anger their electorate.

Table 5 · 12-22-2005, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Vulcan

Hating unions is pretty simple but maybe some of your anger should be directed at your Mayor. It takes two to tango.
As far as the union overplaying it's hand, it's the perfect time to cause the most disruption. I even heard on Fox News [I look at it occasionaly to get properly outraged] that the union fines are not usually enforced by any judges as they are elected and don't want to anger their electorate.

the mayor? the mayor is not in charge of either the MTA or the Union.

Vulcan · 12-22-2005, 09:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Table 5

the mayor? the mayor is not in charge of either the MTA or the Union.

Well the union has to negotiate with someone. I imagine the mayor,if not in charge, has some influence.