And me.
I had to walk about a mile total and take the East River water taxi and the PATH train today. But the TWU are doing what they have to do.
What angers me are people who say, "I don't even have a pension. Why should the transit workers get one at age 55?"
That is the mentality of sheep -- of servants who have been conditioned to love being kicked around, and to pull down any one who tries to demand better. It's a slave mentality, frankly.
No, most of us don't have pensions. My company (a large specialty publishing and information firm) stopped giving its workers pensions a few years before I started there. So because corporate (and government) America is shafting many of its workers, all the others should get the shaft too?
Being a transit worker can involve dangerous, filthy, deafening conditions, hostile customers, and long and grueling hours. Retiring at 55 is not unreasonable.
Oh, and the MTA would have the cash to meet its pension obligations if Pataki and co. in Albany hadn't been raiding the budget for the last several years.
Wow, this really cuts to the point. Essentially, they're saying my job sucks, so everyone else's should suck, too. It's been stunning to hear such anti-union garbage from supposed progresives.
As Dave points out at Seeing the Forest, these people should join a union:
