N.Y.C. transit union leader cheered as he heads to jail
(in the newspaper tuesday)
This man Toussaint is going to jail for ten days for being the 'leader' of the three-day bus and subway strike in newyorkcity last year, before Christmas. Tens of Thousands of Newyorkers were forced to WALK to work and anything else by way of the brooklyn bridge because of this.
the sad part is that the strike didn't even end in any sort of contract and apparently the union was fined 2.5 million- i guess they violated a state law that bans public employees from striking...
but here is the thing.
it says in this article that George Pataki doesn't really acknowledge anything except for the fact that a firefighter was run over by a private bus while riding his bike...and although he did suffer injuries, he is okay- but Pataki says "i would prefer(instead of thinking that this Toussaint is a hero) that the people of New York think and pray for the firefighter who has gone through many operations..."
okay, my heart definitely goes out to him and his family,
but what the fuck? seriously...that really has nothing to do with it, and he is trying to play with our emotions in order to convince us that this strike was something horrible and tragic. An accident is an accident- and it has nothing to do with the fact that they were on strike except that you know, perhaps he would have been on an f-train instead and not been on the street and therefore not gotten hit, BUT it's not even possible to say that- if we all thought that way everything would unravel.
so someone could say to my mother ' you know, if you had only taken a bus, you wouldnt have been hit by that car when you were 13."
where is the comfort or logic in that?
This man Toussaint is going to jail for ten days for being the 'leader' of the three-day bus and subway strike in newyorkcity last year, before Christmas. Tens of Thousands of Newyorkers were forced to WALK to work and anything else by way of the brooklyn bridge because of this.
the sad part is that the strike didn't even end in any sort of contract and apparently the union was fined 2.5 million- i guess they violated a state law that bans public employees from striking...
but here is the thing.
it says in this article that George Pataki doesn't really acknowledge anything except for the fact that a firefighter was run over by a private bus while riding his bike...and although he did suffer injuries, he is okay- but Pataki says "i would prefer(instead of thinking that this Toussaint is a hero) that the people of New York think and pray for the firefighter who has gone through many operations..."
okay, my heart definitely goes out to him and his family,
but what the fuck? seriously...that really has nothing to do with it, and he is trying to play with our emotions in order to convince us that this strike was something horrible and tragic. An accident is an accident- and it has nothing to do with the fact that they were on strike except that you know, perhaps he would have been on an f-train instead and not been on the street and therefore not gotten hit, BUT it's not even possible to say that- if we all thought that way everything would unravel.
so someone could say to my mother ' you know, if you had only taken a bus, you wouldnt have been hit by that car when you were 13."
where is the comfort or logic in that?