Travel / AIRLINE:
What is their starting salary? Where can I find any
online info?
Mike Burris
Cambridge, Mass
'considering a job change! ' LOL
--- Travel Pages <travelpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For everyone's information -- a "motorman" for NYC
> MTA starts at better than DOUBLE the starting salary
> for an NYPD cadet. So this is not about New York
> beating up on the working class, this is a true
> imbalance in the compensation of public servants.
> Or at least many of us seem to think so.
>
> Sadly, the Mayor does not have the authority and
> the Governor is not inclined to jump ahead of the
> courts.
>
> This "breakaway local" union (the "local" Union
> has defied an order from it's parent "Int'l" Union)
> seems to have enraged the city through it's poor
> public relations, rather than garnering support.
>
> Our cops are poorly paid and respect the fact that
> they have no right to strike. It's part of their
> choice of career: you need to eat, but you don't
> SUSPEND PUBLIC SAFETY under any circumstances.
> That's the opposite reason of why you joined up.
>
> I say let these transit folk take a look at the
> plight of airline mechanics -- a group directly
> involved in public safety who have seen pensions
> evaporate, salaries tumble, and their younger
> coworkers relegated to B-scale.
>
> David MR <damiross3@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The mayor of NYC should give them 24 hours to get
> back to work or to get fired, a la the air traffic
> controllers many years ago
> David R
> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: Travel Pages
>
> > It looks like the union leaders will not be a
> place to receive even a lump of
> > coal this Christmas:
> >
> > <> issues related to the strike, directed
> attorneys from the Transport Workers
> > Union to bring president Roger Toussaint and other
> top officials before the
> > court Thursday to answer to a criminal contempt
> charge. He said he may sentence
> > the union leaders to jail for refusing to end the
> strike, calling such a
> > scenario a "distinct possibility." >>
> >
> > It can get cold in the NYC prison system this time
> of year.
> >
> > Michael Burris wrote:
> > AIRLINE:
> >
> > This strike might also mean a short-term spike in
> gas
> > consumption. But, I don't think it will last to
> > Christmas day.
> >
> > Mike Burris
> > Cambridge, Mass
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Roger LaFrance wrote:
> >
> > > New York-Area Airports Little Affected By
> Transit
> > > Strike
> > > Tuesday December 20, 2:50 PM EST
> > >
> > > It was business as usual at New York City-area
> > > airports Tuesday despite the inconvenience of a
> > > transit strike. Airlines reported that business
> > > and leisure travelers hadn't changed their
> travel
> > > plans because of the strike. Local airline and
> > > airport workers, who had made contingency travel
>
> > > plans when a strike was threatened last week,
> > > generally had no trouble getting to the
> airports.
> > > More than 100,000 airport workers at New York's
> John
> > > F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia Airport
> as
> > > well as Newark Liberty International Airport in
> New
> > > Jersey, successfully shared rides to get to
> their
> > > jobs. But spokesman Marc Lavorgna of the Port
> > > Authority of New York and New Jersey, which
> oversees
> > > the airports, said one concern remains. "With so
>
> > > many people driving, airport parking could be a
> > > problem later in the week, when more passengers
> are
> > > traveling" for the holidays, he said.
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