"Had Rosa Parks answered the call of the law instead of the higher call of justice, many of us who are now driving the bus would still be in the back of the bus," he said.
When I first read that quote, I had to re-read it. Could this greedy little punk actually be comparing their illegal strike with a civil right icaon? Rosa Parks illegal act was about equality and civil rights, Toussaint and his cronies (who by the way are being paid, while many New Yorkers are not) engage in an illegal act over money!!!
Toussaint called the strike early Tuesday after the MTA insisted that future employees pay 6 percent of their pay toward pensions. Current workers contribute nothing. Toussaint said yesterday that he would consider calling off the strike and start negotiating again if the MTA dropped the pension issue.
Look, I want to earn as much money as the next guy, but when you are complaining about a pension contribution that nearly every other person in the country has to make, why do you think it is so bad. I have no pension plan, only a 401(k), to which I contibute 5 percent of my pay and my employer matches (which is how pensions work). Why should the city of New York fund 30 plus years of your retirement on the backs of its taxpayers when union members contribute nothing.
Toussaint said he would CONSIDER calling off the strike if the MTA dropped the pension demand. Sorry bozo, it doesn't work that way. Call off the illegal strike, then negotiate. Mayor Bloomberg is right, you can't negotiate about an illegal act and you shouldn't be rewarded for an illegal act that even your national union does not support.
The Philly Inquirer has a comparison between the NY strike and a Philly transit strike a couple of years ago.
See Megan McArdle, who has a word document of the comments posted to a now defunct comments page of the NY TWU blog.
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