While the MTA is awaiting its day in court as it tries to appeal a binding arbitration ruling in favor of the TWU members, the union’s rank-and-file have taken to the streets in protest. According to Pete Donohue, more than 350 union members picketed outside of MTA headquarters this morning in advance of the monthly board meeting. According to union sources, their main targets were Mayor Bloomberg’s four board appointees. TWU officials believe the Mayor has urged the MTA to appeal the decision to secure an 11 percent raise for union workers over the next three years. “He’s the mayor of the city. He always has a say,” Curtis Tate, Local 100’s acting president, said. While workers will not shut down the system any time soon, labor relations between the MTA and its union are icy at best right now.
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If doomberg would not interfere with legal binding arbitration, to personally benefit in his campaign there would not be any protests, court battles or best of all $1000 an hour lawyers being paid for something that is binding. Arbitration didn’t take over a half a yaer for nothing, it was because every I was donted and t crossed. So here we have doomberg aka bloomberg wasting mta money to fight a battle that is already lost just to mislead the public that he is the right,really wrong we don’t want tyrant dictators as a mayor, choice.
Take a hike mike, eight is enough, long live Thompson, finally someone with realistic real life ideas for a real city.