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The 'I' Word: Today Still Can't Bring Itself to Call NYC Strike Illegal
Today Show/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 12/21/2005 4:39:51 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

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1 posted on 12/21/2005 4:39:52 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; YaYa123; MEG33; ...

Today Show/NewsBusters ping.


2 posted on 12/21/2005 4:40:49 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
But her comment aptly applied to Today itself, as the show tiptoes around the intractable fact that a union is blatantly violating the law in a way that causes hundreds of millions of dollars of damage daily, with much of the brunt being borne by lower-income New Yorkers suddenly without jobs or unable to get to them.

People have the right not to work. If the MTA doesn't like the fact that its workers are not reporting for their jobs, it should fire the workers.
3 posted on 12/21/2005 4:43:06 AM PST by BikerNYC (Modernman should not have been banned.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
From the title (The "I" Word), I first thought you were going to talk about impeachment. So I will. ;-)

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Democrat Congressionnal Election 2006 Platform:

Elect us, and we’ll impeach Bush, Bush who tried to protect you from murdering Muslims.

Yeah, that’ll work real well.

LOL.

4 posted on 12/21/2005 4:45:30 AM PST by beyond the sea (If you want a really new idea ..................... read a really old book.)
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To: BikerNYC
People have the right not to work.

Under the Taylor Law, the transit workers do NOT have the right to strike.

5 posted on 12/21/2005 4:45:55 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Workers have the right not to work. They have the right not to show up to their jobs. If an employer doesn't like it, the workers should be fired.


6 posted on 12/21/2005 4:47:32 AM PST by BikerNYC (Modernman should not have been banned.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

FIRE THEM ALL.
BLACKLIST THEM ALL FROM FUTURE GOVERNMENT JOBS.
REFUSE TO EVER AGAIN DO BIZ WITH THIS UNION, OR IT'S LEADERS.
PRIVATIZE THE TRANSIT SYSTEM.


7 posted on 12/21/2005 4:49:52 AM PST by RobFromGa (Polls are for people who can't think for themselves.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

FOX has been calling it illegal all morning. Compared this to the mob. Callers are overwhelmingly saying "FIRE THEM!"


8 posted on 12/21/2005 4:51:24 AM PST by bonfire (dwindler)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
The transit union might as well be fined 10 jillion dollars a day, they are not going to pay a penny.

The mayor is only putting himself in a position where he will have to back off again when it comes time to settle.

Maybe I am the only one to notice, but the subway strike does not seem to be the beg deal it once was. The city did not come to a halt, people still got around. Like all mass transit systems the New York subways are mostly obsolete.
9 posted on 12/21/2005 4:52:01 AM PST by R.W.Ratikal
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I bet Haliburton could get the trains and buses moving.

Give them a no-bid contract for 180 days, that'll give the politicians a chance to come up with long range plans.


10 posted on 12/21/2005 4:52:32 AM PST by RobFromGa (Polls are for people who can't think for themselves.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I saw a bit this morning. Bloomburg's been the only person to use the I-word.


11 posted on 12/21/2005 4:52:35 AM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I'm home watching Fox & Friends......


12 posted on 12/21/2005 4:53:09 AM PST by texianyankee
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To: R.W.Ratikal

Sorry, I meant "Big" deal.


13 posted on 12/21/2005 4:53:16 AM PST by R.W.Ratikal
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To: BikerNYC

Well, yes, they have the right to strike in the sense that police can't force them at gunpoint to go to work. But pursuant to the Taylor Law, and as stated by Bloomberg, they will be fined two days pay for every day they strike, and their union is being fined $1 million per day. Some 'right'!


14 posted on 12/21/2005 4:56:34 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Thank God, our local NYC Fox network has a big "ILLEGAL STRIKE" logo.

And they wonder why Fox is winning the ratings wars. You can just see the news meeting at NBC..."Now, we can't seem to take sides in this; these are good working people in the proud union tradition, most of them people of color, who our demographic surveys tell us we must reach out to if we are to maintain market share blah blah blah...."

While 99% of the NY audience is screaming "DIE RAT BASTARDS DIE" as they freeze on their forced march to work. And the angriest are those same people of color.


15 posted on 12/21/2005 5:02:54 AM PST by Jhensy
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I never watch the Today show. I wonder, though, how many times the word illegal was used in the discussion on the NSA electonic intelligence gathering.


16 posted on 12/21/2005 5:03:09 AM PST by edpc
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The local FOX affiliate (WNYW) has a graphic they've been using- It has the word "ILLEGAL" right over the top! Jodi Applegate, one of the hosts, made a comment that "Even the New York Times called the strike illegal"!

Throw Roger for the train!!!

LC


17 posted on 12/21/2005 5:04:35 AM PST by LoneConservative (PEACE... Through SUPERIOR FIREPOWER!!!)
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To: Jhensy
Our local NYC Fox network has a big "ILLEGAL STRIKE" logo.

Nice - I'd love to see it. Anyone out there with screen-capture technology?

18 posted on 12/21/2005 5:04:39 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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To: LoneConservative

FOX on the ball this morning. They have a bus taking people where they need to go. Awesome! And GREAT PR for FOX.


19 posted on 12/21/2005 5:05:47 AM PST by bonfire (dwindler)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

If the Taylor Law fines workers and subjects them to jail time for exercising their right not to work, it is unconstitutional. The MTA's remedy is not to "force" workers to work through fines and jail, but to fire them if they don't work.


20 posted on 12/21/2005 5:06:09 AM PST by BikerNYC (Modernman should not have been banned.)
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