The Socialist Party of New York City strongly supports the right of transit workers to free speech, free assembly and free labor.
We denounce, in the strongest possible terms, the Metropolitan Transportation Agency’s callous disregard of the safety and health of transit workers, as well as their unending demands for for wage and benefit cutbacks. We are sickened by the slave plantation politics of Mayor Bloomberg, Governor Pataki and Attorney General Spitzer, who would fine union members from two days’ wages up to a quarter of a million dollars each for the nerve of refusing to work without a contract.
As commuters, we recognize and appreciate the hard work and dedication of New York’s transit workers. As citizens, we voted in large numbers in favor of the state’s transportation bond act – expecting that some of the money we approved would go to fair and equitable pay increases for the workers who keep New York moving. As workers, we insist that if our brothers and sisters in TWU 100 go on strike, then we too will not go to work, or if we do WE WILL WALK.
Well if the socalist party did not stand with the transit workers we would really be in trouble eh? LOL Keep the fight up guys… TWU will previal.
SP USA needs to support and show solidarity in all ways, with transit workers on strike in NYC.
What can we be doing, limited though we may be?