Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 06:47:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Cathy Green <dalek_cag at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Odd events
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> >
> I'm with Ted. What's the point of a union if the
> right
> to strike is made illegal? Hell, if American
> business
> could manage it, that would be the default condition
> and unions would lose what little power they still
> have.
> Yeah, the NY strike is inconvenient and costly as
> hell
> but the union workers didn't cause these problems.
> They have to work together to create a satisfactory
> solution, and demonizing the union isn't the way to
> do
> it.
> And Reagan's goal was to crush the air traffic
> controllers, not find a reasonable compromise. I
> have
> a lot of thoughts about #40... and not many of them
> are complimentary.
>
> Drew
>
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>
Yes, but one of the trade-offs of the Taylor Law, is
that the City and the State are required to go to
binding arbitration with the unions covered by the
Taylor Law.  In other words, the City and State become
bound by whatever the arBitrators decide.  Having
lived most of my life in NYC, I was not under the
impression the arbitrators, whoever they are, were
considered particularly biased towards the government.

cathy

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