When you are dealing with a spoiled child who does not listen to reason who is used to getting their way what do you do? In the MTA’s case that would be our boss Jay H Walder. It is obvious that he has received indications from governor elect Andrew M Cuomo, that he may not be the head of the MTA in the future. Therefore he wants to muddy the water to whomever will relieve him in riling up the labor relations to a rancid level.
Jay H Walder, who thrives in utilizing high conflict methods against the blue collar employees especially after using them in London, UK believed that he can bully the American blue collar workers in New York. However he is finding out that the TWU Local 100 membership are capable of rendering him useless and running him out of town. Since we ran him out off of 105 Duane Street, in Lower manhattan, it is obvious he has no courage to stand up and face the blue collar workers thus he resorted to moving to 96 Street.
We are also troubled by our president John Samuelsen befriending organizations that are staunch defenders of Jay H Walder. “We feel the attacks directed toward Mr. Walder during the gubernatorial campaign have been unwarranted,” the letter says from the Tri-State Transportation Campaign. We caution our president John Samuelsen not to befriend Walder’s defenders. He cannot say he is not aware of their objectives or goals, thus he is guilty by association and as an old idiom says ‘tell me who are his friends, and I will tell you who he is’.
The membership has won contract from 2009-2012 and the contract was ratified. The awards were as follows in 2009: 2% raise from April 16, 2009 then 2% raise from October 16, 2009. For 2010: 2% raise from April 16, 2010 then 2% raise from October 16, 2010. For 2011: 3% raise effective January 16, 2011 with the health benefit contribution to be 1.5% based on 40 hours. However Jay H Walder rushed to court initially rejecting to honor the contract and he has been rebuffed from the lower court and now the court of appeals has rebuffed him again. When you are dealing with a spoiled child who does not listen to reason, he feels that asking the court to hear the case will make a difference by getting his way.
If this is an indication from Walder that for the contract negotiations of 2012 he will be utilizing high conflict methods then we the blue collar workers will definitely run him out of town. The rat will come out soon when the membership will descend on 96 street, and maybe he will move back to his villa in France.
Manhattanville, you surprise me!
ReplyDeleteWhen you say "we ran him out off of 105 Duane Street, in Lower manhattan"
You are taking credit for something few were a part of.
In fact, it was those "Drama Queens" (as you called them) from station department that ran Walder out of his cushy apartment.
Stations officers and laid-off station agnets were there every day to let Walder know it was personal.
Give credit where it is due.
In fact, stations led the fight against layoffs and went to the public hearings and MTA meetings in much, much larger numbers than any other department.