Mitch Pally isn’t backing down from trying to get the board to approve the transit union contract. Pally, who represents Suffolk County, was the only voting board member to say the contract should be approved.
In a letter to Chairman Peter Kalikow he asked that the contract be placed on the May 24 board meeting agenda, according to the Daily News. MTA had no comment. No shocker there.
The Post followed Roger Toussaint to the Bronx where he was greeted like a hero by striking Waste Management workers (by some accounts those guys appear to be getting a raw deal). Local 108’s secretary-treasurer called him a “working-class hero.”
Toussaint gave them some media savvy advice. “You need to take this show on the road and form secondary pickets,” the Post quoted him as saying. “There are no television cameras here.”
One reader reacting to my story in today’s amNewYork on how transit workers out on medical leave got hit with Taylor Law sympathized with the MTA.
“I hope Mr. Foster has a full recovery from his illness, however, I do believe he should be fined like everyone else. If he and the others who were sick that day or were out on vacation had been at work, they also would have struck,” he wrote.
FRIVOLOUS UPDATE: Toussaint shaved the goatee.
-- Chuck Bennett
