@el_tino Said The transit strikers of NYC earn more money than 50% of the population of NYC. I have no sympathy for striking for that kind of pay. Especially when the people most screwed by the strike are people who make less money than the transit workers themselves.
$45K year in new york? I know peopel there making like $20K and they don't strike and screw up other people's incomes in the process.
20K in New York is probably close to the poverty level and we should be pissed that they have to live that way. We should not be commending the poor for their meager lifestyle and using that as the example for others. It is a fact that countries with strong labor unions have higher standards of living for the general population. But in this country, not only is business allowed to smash the unions and government allowed to imprison strikers, but the general population (if this forum is any indication of the general population) is telling the unions to shut up and be happy with what they have.
A strong labor movement equates with higher living standards for the population as a whole. The vast concentration of wealth, which is more extreme in the United States than in any other industrialized nation, and the high poverty rate (also higher in the U.S. than in any other developed nation) is fought by our labor unions. They fight for a more just society. They fight for us.
Certainly, New Yorkers were upset, but as I noted earlier, 60% of those commuters SUPPORTED the strikers. New Yorkers seem to know what a strong labor movement means to the country, unlike most people in this forum.
Dec 23, 2005 @ 19:27:12
