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 nyt op ed:


"THE Transport Workers Union,
 representing the city's nearly 34,000 subway and bus workers,
 is threatening to call a strike this Friday 
if the Metropolitan Transportation Authority
 doesn't sign a contract to its liking.

 Such a strike would be illegal: 
public employees in New York State 
are forbidden from walking out on the job. 

And not only would a strike be illegal,
 it would be unjustified. 

The authority is a generous employer by any standard. 

Its employees take home bigger paychecks 
and more lavish benefits 
than most of the city's private employees.

 The authority is not looking to drastically slash 
those salaries and benefits.

It is merely proposing to increase worker productivity 
and to cut back modestly 
on its own pension and health-benefit obligations 

Subway operators and token clerks 
are blue-collar workers,
but their paychecks match those of middle-class workers
 even ones in New York City. 

According to the authority, 
the average subway or bus operator
 earns nearly $63,000 per year.

 The average subway conductor
                         earns about $54,000.

 The average station agent earns about $51,000.

 A subway cleaner earns about $40,000.

Compare these numbers with salary figures
 in New York's private sector.
 According to the state comptroller
 the average New York City worker
 earns about $60,000 a year.

 This number includes workers
 on Wall Street, whose six-figure salaries
 distort the picture.

 Take out well-paid finance-industry workers,
 and the average worker in New York 
earns just $49,000.

 What about workers without a college education?
 Most factory workers, health care employees 
and restaurant and retail workers in the city
 earn under $35,000. 

And the transit union workers 
have one thing most people 
in the private sector don't: job security.


 the authority isn't proposing layoffs.
 It is asking only for the kind of flexibility that private-sector employers demand.

 .


 Most union members are now eligible
 to retire, at age 55, after 25 years
 on the job, at half their annual pay;
 the authority wants to raise the age
 to 62 for new employees. 

WHO'S STUPID ENOUGH TO THINK LIKE THIS

WHAT DUMBO WIL READ GUFF LIKE THIS AND COME AWAY THINKING


 " THEY'RE ALL A BUNCH OF
 SPOILED  OVER PAID 
    NASTY 
       LITTLE JOB FRAUDS "

 " IF THEY STIKEI SAY
  BOOK EM JAIL EM  
 SLAM EMGOOD
SCAB AWAY THEIR JOBS "ETC ETC ETC 

 "MAKE EM LIVE LOW LIKE THEY DESERVE "


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