This Saturday every Local 100 officer is asked to attend an “expanded joint executive board” to embrace a “clear program to Defend Local 100.”
“These are challenging times. The Taylor Law fines have started. The Governor and the MTA are stonewalling on our contract and pushing hard to expediate binding arbitration. The media is targeting transit workers and our Union,” the flier says.
Now is that fair? Targeting transit workers? With the exception of the occasional sleeping token booth clerk, news reports have generally been respectful of the rank-and-file. If the public expressed anger over the strike it was not the media’s fault.
Also, apparently a motion to be introduced at the meeting by the motormen in Rapid Transit Operations that called for Local 100 to secede from the international if there is still no contract by June 16 was shelved. No drama there.
-- Chuck Bennett
