Look at what happens when you build your life around relying on others for your transportation. How sad. The NYC govenment is ordering that all cars have at least four passingers to enter Manhattan. Individual rights trumped again. I am never going to even visit NYC. Many communities around our country are designing transportation systems which replace or will eventually outlaw personal transportation options for Citizens. All union labor built and union labor operated. There are lessons watching these failures in NYC.

All government services rely on how much they are needed to survive. Government workers will survive on the backs of those mandated to support and be served by them.

 

Use federal government employees. They aren't allowed to strike. The last time they tried, every air traffic controller on strike in the US was fired. How much skill does it take to sit in a computer-controlled train and pretend that what you're doing is important to its operation? Sounds like the perfect federal government employee position to me.

 

Good idea. But, will the president have the ***** to fire that many people?

 

I think he has the cajones to do it. Bush is anti-union. Reagan sent over 11,000 striking ATCs walking in the early '80s. That's 100% of the ones who were striking. I'm sure Bush would as well, even though there are some 33,000 NYC Transit Authority employees.

 

As of today, the strike is off due to threats of jail time for the union bosses. Still no contract so we can expect another walk off when things heat up again. The state of NY prohibits strikes by public transit workers. Lets see if the six day pay docking and fines stick.