Yay, the NYC transit strike is over!

Thank G-d. I've had it very easy, being allowed to telecommute from Brooklyn instead of walking 9.27 miles to work in 20 degree weather.

I am not anti-union, but I am anti-this strike. I think it is reasonable to ask TWU members to pay toward their health care: I did 10 years ago when I was part of the UAW working at Columbia University as an admin assistant. I think the union needs to get real- people are living longer and the MTA can't afford to let people retire at 50 and pay them half their salary for the rest of their lives.


From what I've seen, many New Yorkers are not in support of this strike.

-Newsday message boards seemed 99-1 against the strike (granted, they were mostly unintelligible rants)

-The NY Times message boards are about 80%-20% anti-strike. I was surprised at the generally low level of discourse on this board. Some posters try to make a decent argument, while many fall into the "you rat!" "You lazy pencil pushing bastard!" category. At about post 500 two women entered and presented cogent arguments for and against the strike.

Toussant's reference to Rosa Parks was laughable (SHE didn't force 7 million people to walk to work; participants in the bus strikes later CHOSE to do so). Quoting Bloomberg's book where he described breaking a law to get a project done was genius. There's lawbreaking and lawbreaking, though.

I'm glad I have a job where I can work from home and don't have to physically be there to get paid. What about the waitresses and other hourly wage employees? Doctors and nurses? How about the single mom of 4 office worker who had to walk 12 miles from Astoria to Wall Street in the cold? I'm lucky that the only inconvenience I had was having to blade to the LIRR Flatbush station, take the train to Queens, then into the city, then blade to the W. Village to get to a chorus rehearsal.

Whew.