OK. The MTA is officially on strike here in NYC, for the first time in like 25 years. We have no busses or trains for the 8 million people who commute in every day
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I spent last night researching this issue and reading Taylor Law a few times over.
It's an escalation thing, in my mind.
The MTA threw the first salvo with their attempts to renegotiate the pension age and cost without sufficient inducement or good faith. To let that go would basically leave the union open to other bad faith contract adjustments.
The union then escalated the situation with the strike as a second violation of Taylor law...basically shooting the one round they had.
Of course the big problem is that the people writing the contracts were foolish. To create an open ended contract like that can only lead to problems like this. They should get Steinbrenner to negotiate the next contract...he understands contracts.
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It's an escalation thing, in my mind.
The MTA threw the first salvo with their attempts to renegotiate the pension age and cost without sufficient inducement or good faith. To let that go would basically leave the union open to other bad faith contract adjustments.
The union then escalated the situation with the strike as a second violation of Taylor law...basically shooting the one round they had.
Of course the big problem is that the people writing the contracts were foolish. To create an open ended contract like that can only lead to problems like this. They should get Steinbrenner to negotiate the next contract...he understands contracts.
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