New York City ne krize!

[Ihti]

Ta vazhdoj fjalen e Manules...
Te gjithe punonjes pa shkolle, pa asnje lloj kualifikimi, kryetari i Unionit nuk di as me fol Anglisht, e qe paguhen MJAFT mire already, duan te marrin benefite extra?
Apo te na e rrase neve MTA prape se vitin tjeter do dale (sipas gjitha gjasave)deficit?
Hajde se do ja mballosi mire Blumi ketyre.

Ja sot ja hudha...po neser do marr gomonen qe kane vene vlonjatet te quensboro me duket.
degjova qe zezaket e kinezet i hidhnin ne gjysem te rruges...
jo per pune rracizmi, thjesht force zakoni. lol

[Taulant _NYC]

Pse kishte strike sot ???? Une kot per fiskulture ja futa ures me vrap ........... ca koincidence.

[Xhuxhumaku]

Compania ime me dergoi helikopterin e saj per pick up. Une edhe sa u ktheva nga Chicago. Me shkoi jeta ne ajer, lol.

mire mire zotrote,

ngele ne ajer me Ali Kapterin...

[Tulipani Zi]

me sa me thane (se une vete gjendem ne shqiperi), te gjithe ishin rehatuar neper taksira dhe kishin arrit ne pune sakllem. that's my american fellas, still going strong despite of what happens.

Ate po mendoja kte mengjes kur po beja te pamunduren si te iknim ne Manhattan 4 veta dhe telefonat s'pushonin nga te kater anet: Po te ishim ne Shqiperi do ishim kthyer nga ana tjeter ne krevat e do ja kishim fut gjumit, ne Amerike me vrap ne pune. Kaluan 7 ura e 7 lumenj njerezia.

[vagabondo_nyc]

Une Per Vete Sjam Prekur Nga Greva Por Nyc Humbet 600 Milion Dollar Ne Dite Nga Greva. Hata E Madhe Qe I Lejuan Te Bejne Greve.

[niku-nyc]

Te dy kan faje MTA dhe TWU dhe asnjeri nuk do fitoje, derrin e hajne njerzit. TWU me ligj ska te drejte te bejn greve dhe tashti e hengren $1 milion cdo dite qe jan ne greve si ndeshkim, kurse MTA akoma abuzon me punetoret qe me ligj nuk ka te drejte ti trajtojn ashtu.
Cdo gje po behet per ate $1 bilion. MTA do ti fusi per vete ne xhep kurse TWU ka gjetur shancin qe tjua grabisi ato qe kan ene ti mari per vete, por ne fund nuk do fitoj askush dhe per 10-20 vjet mbase me shpejt do ket greve tjeter.
Po vazhdoj me shum se 2 jave ky qytet do mari fund dhe vetem nonji ndime nga Kongresi ka me e shpetu apo cjan dhe ne krize nga 9/11 tashti dhe kjo u desh!

[My_Soul]

mire mire zotrote,

ngele ne ajer me Ali Kapterin...

Nuk guxon njeriu te beje nje shaka. Apapapa c'paskeni qene.

Kush eshte Ali Kapteri???

Xhuxhu! Qejf i madh nga Tirana per Christmas. Me kane derguar foto nga ca party andej...

[Taulant _NYC]

Throw Roger from the train!

Roger Toussaint, we dare you to take to the Brooklyn Bridge this morning to tell the cold, walking throngs why you chose to disrupt the lives of millions, jacked up the expenses of tens of thousands, shuttered and crimped businesses, exposed the subway system to terrorism and generally threatened the public health and welfare.
It would be delicious watching you try to justify the reckless, lawless transit strike that you have inflicted on the city - assuming your fellow New Yorkers didn't hurl you over the railing into the icy waters before you got a word out. For this town, a labor town, is seething at getting hammered for no good reason.

The rage will only build as the public gets the full picture of how Toussaint rashly led the Transport Workers Union away from the bargaining table despite winning concession after concession from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The most furious of all should be the 33,700 workers who are on the street without paychecks and facing huge penalties for violating the Taylor Law.

They are about to lose thousands of dollars each - and their union will be financially broken by $1 million-a-day fines - unless they pressure Toussaint to return them to service, having gained all they are ever going to gain through his extortion. Remarkably, the president of the TWU International is urging the transit workers to go back to work on their own, en masse. And well they should, because the makings of a good deal await them.

The MTA wanted a two-year contract, while the union wanted a three-year deal. The MTA made it three years.

The union rejected raises of 3% a year. The MTA bumped yearly hikes to 3%, 4% and 3.5%, which compound to 11% over the life of the contract.

The union asked for more money. The MTA added a 0.5% bonus.

The union proposed Martin Luther King Day as a paid holiday, giving the workers 12 a year. The MTA agreed.

The union accused the MTA of subjecting large numbers of employees to arbitrary punishments. The MTA proposed hiring an independent consultant to recommend disciplinary system reforms.

The union balked at having new workers - and only new workers - contribute 1% of their salaries for health insurance. The MTA dropped the idea even though skyrocketing health costs are fueling a deficit projected at almost $1 billion.

And there was progress even on the most difficult issue: pensions. Transit workers now contribute 2% of salary to pensions and can retire at half pay after 25 years on the job at age 55. The costs are bankrupting the MTA and driving up fares. That's why the agency proposed requiring newly hired workers to stay on the job until age 62 and to kick in 3%.

When the TWU adamantly opposed raising the retirement age, the MTA retreated to 55 and both sides began discussing whether new workers should contribute 3%, 5% or 6%, and for how long. But Toussaint abruptly ended the talks, and the strike was on. So irrational was his action that a third of Toussaint's executive board voted against the walkout, and TWU International President Michael O'Brien is calling on the strikers "to report to work."

Any fair reading of the record demonstrates that MTA Chairman Peter Kalikow negotiated in good faith, met Toussaint more than halfway and was prepared to keep the discussions going for as long as they took. Toussaint, meanwhile, betrayed his members and the city in an act of madness.

[Taulant _NYC]

How the TWU blew it

There are 8 million reasons transit workers were wrong to strike, but the union's obsession with three key words ultimately took them off the track. Here are those words and how the union leaders misused them to cause this debacle:
Surplus: The MTA has always been a wizard at making money disappear, but it entered contract talks showing a surplus of $1 billion. The union bosses saw the pile and dreamed of getting some, to the tune of 8% annual raises. That's a laughable demand, and they compounded their mistake by claiming such big hikes were earned because the workers created the surplus.

Not true. In fact, that honor goes to taxpayers. They shelled out hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes to subsidize the MTA. Portions of two fairly obscure state taxes - the mortgage recording tax and the property transfer tax - are dedicated to the MTA, and both turned in far higher than expected collections because of the real estate boom.

Another contributor is the sales tax, with one-eighth of a penny in the city going to trains and buses. Altogether, higher tax income provided $733 million, or 70% of the surplus. Lower interest rates saved the agency an additional $170 million, or 17%, according to the state controller's office. Still, the union will get a huge chunk of the surplus. Almost half - $450 million - is being spent on pensions and it was offered salary hikes of 10.5% over three years.

Unborn: Sometimes it seemed union head Roger Toussaint had ventured into the abortion debate when he said the MTA wanted him to "sell out the unborn." He chose that loaded word to reject sensible demands that future workers contribute more to the cost of their benefits.

Here are the facts: Health and pension costs threaten to bankrupt government just as much as they do auto manufacturers and airlines. MTA officials say those costs have tripled in recent years and that pension spending hit $453 million last year. Costs are expected to keep rising and are a large part of projected deficits in 2007 and 2008.

The agency is right to shift some of the burden to workers, just as many private companies have, with one difference: Benefits for current workers are untouched. The MTA offered options - later retirement, longer service, greater contributions - all applying only to future employees. Each time the union said no. One labor leader called that stance "an ideology."

Like most ideologies, it ignores reality and brings its own pain. Thanks to the Taylor Law, its followers face big penalties.

Respect: This is the union's catch-all phrase for why it's striking, covering everything from salary to discipline to working conditions. No doubt it has some valid issues, but, with apologies to Aretha Franklin, disrupting Christmas week for millions of people is no way to get R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Even Michael O'Brien, president of the TWU International, the striking local's parent union, said he warned against a strike. "I told them that the only road to contract victory for the membership was not by strike but continued negotiation."

That brings to mind three words the union should have remembered: Father knows best. That would have saved them, and us, a lot of trouble.

[bayern]

Bunch of BS. Fire their A$ses. Toussand should learn english before speaking his @ss out.