Jailing Labor Leaders. UnAmerican and Wrong.
This entry was posted on 4/21/2006 10:04 AM and is filed under Current Events.
On Monday, April 24th at 4 pm, TWU Local 100 President Roger Toussaint will be jailed for his unions decision to strike to keep their health care and pension plan. Unions are planning on demonstrating outside the Brooklyn Supreme Court while this is happening. So let's think about this entire situation for a second. The multi billion dollar MTA wanted its employees to start paying for its health care, and management wanted to create a class system within the MTA workforce where older workers get a better pension than younger workers. The NYS Taylor Law bars public employees from Striking. According to the Taylor Law, regardless of how bad the working conditions are, regardless of workplace deaths, unsafe and unhealthy working conditions, sexual harassment or racial bigotry on the job, workers have little to no effective recourse for management abuse. Take it our leave it...that the NYS Taylor Law.
TWU Local 100 violated the Taylor Law by going on Strike. They are considered criminals in the minds of the rich, the slect few who own our nations wealth. But most notably, they are hero's to people who work for a living who want a better life for themselves, their family and their community. God Bless You Roger Toussaint. We'll see you at the Brooklyn Supreme Court on Monday, April 24th at 4 pm.
