A growing number of people Occupying Wall Street are raising awareness about the inherent unfairness of corporate welfare - as we know MTA is a Public Authority that likes to act like a private corporate.
How can we bail out banks and give tax breaks to oil companies without also helping regular blue collar employees who are suffering? Especially for TWU Local 100 members where that question has been the subject of a struggle that began with Michael J Quill before encampments popped up in Zuccotti Park. Now it is once again coming to a head at MTA.
There is no question that there are companies that are receiving millions of dollars in subsidies for some form or other in the name of transportation. Joseph Lhota would like you to believe the capitalism is about putting your hand out and making everything you can for yourself!
The self described 99 percent who were occupying Zuccotti Park cited a statistic that 1 percent of the country controls more than 40 percent of the nation’s wealth. Little of that money has found its way to our TWU Local 100 members where almost half are on the poverty line. It is clear MTA needs to rehire the laid off workers desperately who need to be put back to work, since our fellow co workers continue to slip into poverty.
As the calls for a reassessment of this country's values grows louder on Wall Street, the least the MTA - CEO, Joseph Lhota - can do is to rehire the laid off members of TWU Local 100 since that is a moderate call for fairness.
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