The recent New York City transit strike has proven that some unions no longer value the well-being of their fellow citizens.
While the strike was ostensibly against the Transit Authority, it was – in fact – a strike against the people of New York as well as against retail merchants.
Hourly workers were forced to pay extraordinary sums to get to work, which significantly reduced their take-home pay. In addition, retailers depend on the enormous sales volume of the Christmas buying season. Having eliminated three-days of that shopping season just prior to Christmas, the striking transit workers were the cause of a dramatic fall-off in sales. Merchants simply did not ring up the sales they needed.
As if all that were not sufficient damage, the tax payers of New York will now have to pay for the increased wages of the transit workers, all of whom receive generous health care benefits as well as pensions that they can begin collecting at age 55! How many working class New Yorkers would like to change places with the transit workers and receive those generous wages, benefits and pensions?
The New York City transit strike has fully demonstrated the bankruptcy of civil service unions, of their contempt for the public’s well-being!
