Judge could fine each worker $25,000 per day - Jail for leaders - (NYC Stike).

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[no dems]

The more money Unions have to pay in fines, the less they have to give the Democrats for the '06 and '08 elections.

[JasonC]

They are costing the city government $100 million a day, and overall economic activity more like $250 million a day. The fines are chicken feed. You could confiscate everything every worker owns, all the assets of the union, and not pay half the real economic cost of a month long strike. Fine sure, but the real solution is replacement workers.

[JasonC]

Their wages are insupportable, let alone the pension stuff. All these prancing self important gangsters should be fired yesterday. You could fill every job in a week at the salaries they offer. You could fill every job in a month at 3/4 what they are paying now.

[pleikumud]

I heard that there are many applicants everytime a position opens for bus driver, etc.
High (excessive) pay for low skills. So it must be very easy to find replacements.

[arthurus]

I bet the neither the unions nor the members will pay any fines. And they know this going into it.