Jail Union Leaders? Fire Transit Workers?
December 21st, 2005
State Supreme Court Judge Judge Theodore Jones ordered Roger Toussaint and two other union officials to show up in court tomorrow at 11 a.m. Their presence is required, he said, because he may send them to jail.
Jones took this action after city lawyers asked him to pass an injunction against the strike, allowing them to fine MTA workers, something Jones said he will consider as soon as possible. By raising the possibility of jail time, he surprised lawyers from both sides.
Meanwhile, Manhattan Institute fellow Steven Malanga argued in the Wall Street Journal that the MTA should fire all striking workers and replace them with people who will agree to work on the authority’s terms. After that, writes Malanga, New York should privatize “big chunks” of its mass transit system.
For his part, Mayor Michael Bloomberg doesn’t think the union’s leaders should be jailed or its members fired.
By Joshua Brustein on December 21, 2005, 4:45 pmIn category: Transportation | 2 Comments »


December 21st, 2005 at 11:10 pm
Yeah I hate the Manhattan Institute. I had the unfortunate experience of taking out Malanga’s book “The new new left” from the library thinking it was something totally different than what it turned out to be. As soon as I got up to the part where he trashes ACORN I had to close the book.
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