Extremely pissed off rant ahoy : The transport strike (warning: obscenity ahoy)

[docwebster]

I wish I knew what to think. On the one hand, the MTA are being obdurate assholes over pensions and raises, but (to me) the worst is the union itself. I *know* I have transport workers on my friends list from other states and I know they're union.

But when you completely fuck up people's lives like this on motherfucking Christmas week of all the damn weeks of the year, rendering it close to impossible to get anything done like, say, go to work or get to places you need to be in weather like they're experiencing, then frankly you can go fuck yourself. I don't give a flying damn what your rationale is.

I also have very little doubt that some cowardly assholes will succeed in sabotaging mass transit in various ways and in varying degrees of success. I don't even live in New York, and this is pissing me off beyond belief.

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[lazysun.livejournal.com]

The thing that really got me is that one of their big sticking points is that the employees want a bigger cut of the budget surplus that the MTA found. I mean, for fuck's sake, they should be using that surplus to, you know, upgrade equipment, lower fares, that kind of thing. It shouldn't be a pocket-liner for anybody, unless they use it to hire more people.

Fuckers.