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I'll tell you who cares (besides us New Yorkers):

1. Other unions across the country who would like to try the same (obnoxious and ridiculous) tactics employed by the TWU. They're waiting to see if the TWU is sucessful or not. Judging from the press conference held yesterday by the union's leadership to cry and moan about the "harsh language" used by the Mayor, and the public outcry for their hanging, the answer is: no.

2. The public relations firms who will now be lining up like Russians on a toilet paper line to help "rehabilitate" the image of NYC Transit workers. Although how you rehabilitate the image of old-style (mostly-) minority communists, with French-style retirement benefits, making $60k to drive a bus is beyond me.

3. The people of the City of New York, who, for better or worse, actually drive the economic engine of the country.

4. The people of the City of New York, some of who are currently having to share rides from licenced bandits in taxis with the great unwashed masses from every third-world sh*thole you can imagine, and being charged $40 to travel two miles or less.

5. The stores, restaurants, theatres and tourist attractions which currently have no clientele during the holiday season (the biggest of the year), and who will have to lay off or fire their staff because of it. That assumes, of course, the staff can actually get to work to begin with.

6. The NYPD which has had to keep officers sleeping in the hallways in the stationhouses during this strike so that they are available to their job of protecting the public. The FDNY, which has done likewise.

Bzzzzzz! You just aren't trying hard enough, FRiend. NYC is the Nation's largest librat bastion. They are getting just what they have promoted.

1) Unions are in a tailspin in this country, FRiend. Illegal strikes by gooberment worker unions at Christmas time is NOT buying them any friends.

2) PR firms??? Mostly New Yawkers. Tuff tookis for them.

3) The people of NYC that truly drive the Nation's economy DON'T use mass transit anyway.

4) & 5) They are New Yawkers; and mostly liberal. They are getting what they have pushed for.

6) Public service means just that; service. I am a cop in my small town. I can tell you that I'd put up with any such hardship when my community needs me most.