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[sorrowmonkey]

Thank you zohra, for making me the new icon. I love it best.

Work is ick. The company we are subcontracting through is completely dropping the ball, but we are between a rock and a hard place, since we can't get paid if they don't get paid. We can't really rat them out too badly to the customer, since we warned the customer this could happen, and they decided to do it this way anyhow. A little stressful, overall.

Tonight we have training, from 6:30 PM to whenever. Hopefully, it won't run too late, since the train ride home is 109 minutes.

Luckily, the MTA strike isn't scheduled until Friday, so I don't have to worry too much about getting home. Getting to work on Friday morning might be a trick though. I'm planning on leaving the truck in New Haven, but that won't work too well if the Metro-North is hosed. Should be interesting.

It sounds like the MTA is a bunch of pricks, but at the same time I am not satisfied with civil servants who break the law. If you want to have a dialogue about:

• Whether or not it should be legal for you to srike.
• Your working conditions.
• How screwed up/corrupt the MTA management is.
• How dirty the bathrooms are.
• Whether you should be able to retire after 20 years.

I'm fine with talking about that.

However, if you break the law, I have no sympathy for you whatsoever.

The various governmental and pseudo-governmental agencies in NYC are, generally speaking, a complete clusterfuck. If that wasn't clear enough from just visiting there, listening to the news anywhere on the east coast will tell you that. Also, there were some pretty obvious hints in Rudy's book.

The people in NYC have the government they have chosen for themselves.

If the MTA is a fundamentally corrupt institution, it should be restructured or replaced. These workers should elect officials that will deal with their issues, write letters, and so forth. Striking is not the only way to handle every labor dispute.

Comments

[kuzu-no-ha.livejournal.com]

I agree, but dearest you are from Flint land of the quite corrupt UAW.
Hoffa tried to fix things, now he's in a parking lot in Jersey.
Hell even Sammie tried.

I don't know what the answer is.

[nrawling.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure, either. I'm just pretty certain that striking should not be the first choice in every labor dispute.

I think probably the root problem is that in a representative democracy, you have to make a point to elect decent and qualified representation, and that historically, the City of New York has not done so. The seem (in my opinion) to do better at picking mayors than other offices.