> >From this distance, the ferocity of the attack on the strikers by the
>ruling powers certainly seems to support Harvey's contention that as the
>result of the financial crisis of the mid-70s New York was transformed
>into the preeminent local and cultural "space" for capital.
This is the third transit strike I've lived through, the second in NYC. After the 1963 (?) one, the state legislature passed a law banning public employee strikes. The 1980 one was furiously resisted, the union heavily fined, and labor is thought to have lost. This one really seems little different.
Doug