Posted on 01/24/2024 6:35:00 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
New York City school teachers who commute from Staten Island and The Bronx to Manhattan are at a crossroads: Pay $2,700 more a year to commute by car, spend hours on public transportation — or change jobs.
“The city doesn’t care about Staten Island,” special education teacher Paul Caminiti told The Post.
He is one of five educators (four from Staten Island and one from New Jersey) in the United Federation of Teachers union who, along with Staten Island borough president Vito Fossella, are suing the MTA over its upcoming congestion pricing plan.
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City doesn't care about anything except tax dollars and power.
City doesn't care about anything except tax dollars and power.
Darn it Bob, you’re double posting again. What have I told myselves about this?
You voted for it
What a dumb ass?
I worked for over 50 years before I retired and had many (many) jobs (and careers). If a job was not working out or if it cost me more to get to a job I looked and found another one (even if it meant moving to a new area).
He is a teacher, I would think New York state has a lot of teachers and I would also think different schools are always looking for teacher. Go find another position.
Outer-borough-residing and New Jersey-residing first responders are supposedly also among those hardest hit by this new tax on living.
Teachers married to policemen is apparently the ultimate stable life hack to afford home mortgages and raise a family.
Manhattan congestion pricing is one of the most idiotic public policy initiatives ever thought up by the GnuYak Demoncrats. Tourism will be destroyed as will Broadway, restaurants, hotels and everything else in Midtown.
> I wonder how these teachers and the teachers union vote?? (sarc) <
I was an involuntary member of a big city teachers union for decades. And it’s an odd thing. Teachers in general politically mirror the local population. You’ve got Bernie Sanders types, MAGA folks, and everything in between.
But the union leadership is 100% ultra-liberal. No political diversity there. How can that be? It’s because the union leadership sets up elections so that they win, always.
If they just vote Democrat harder, everything will be OK.
If you commute daily by car from Staten Island to the Bronx, you are too stupid to be teaching America’s youth.
This is what I did - I had a long commute to a school in an area we’d previously lived in - found a job much closer to home that cut five hours a week off of my commute, my life became immeasurably better and I was able to get my kids directly from school instead of them going to aferschool programs, which my kids absolutely hated.
My husband (school admin) kept his eye out always for schools closer to home and always managed to find a new position that met this goal.
One of the good things about the teaching profession is that it is everywhere - and flexible - making it easy to change job locations and even school districts.
There is another option - move to a sensible area (and leave your voting tendencies on the Island.)
This is what I did -
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That is what most people do.
One of the driving force in American history was that ordinary people moving to where they could find work to support their families. At first farming and later factory.
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