[lbo-talk] NY Transit strike or solidarity in the US and the UK

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Wed Dec 21 07:58:48 PST 2005


Doug:
> Watching the vox pop on NY1 - the New York City news channel
> on Time Warner cable systems - I've been surprised at the
> sympathy to the strikers. There was one woman tonight going
> on about how they should be fired like Reagan did with PATCO,
> but there were three or four pro-strike remarks in the same segment.

Indeed, the vox populi on the BBC list is getting more diverse too. Below is the "vox" that I contributed:

"Anyone who believes that $50,000 plus pension is too much for a NYC worker with considerable responsibility, but does not mind seven digits handouts to speculators accountable to noone needs to have his head examined. Anyone claiming that the US is not a "socialist" nation needs to realize that US is not a nation at all, socialist or otherwise, but a club of billionaires with no national loyalty supported by the multinational work force toiling for pennies."

Wojtek



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