Gothamist: Toussaint Wants to Fight Taylor Law

JJ

Wed, 10 May 2006 20:45:38 -0500

hey, new yorkers wake up, open our eyes to see that the Taylor law is UNCONSTITUTIONAL. It is from 1967 to the present that this law has a chiling effect on us.............next time we have another strike, we must make outlaw the Taylor law one of our demands........TO make sure this law is unconstitutinal, just go and check the First Amendment of the US Constitution and Section 17 of the New York State Constitution.

Mike

Sun, 30 Apr 2006 12:06:05 -0500

Roger, I'm With You. Let's get rid of the Taylor Law. Why should we be required to have union employees at all in government? As of now we have workers who are generally overpaid in most jobs compared to the free market private sector. They have defined benefit pensions - where the rest of us have 401K's. They can't be fired for poor performance except in the most extreme circumstances. If you don't like your job's get new ones. No shortage of applicants at the TA.

james

Sat, 29 Apr 2006 22:16:08 -0500

No, we understand all too well. The type of public unions we have now do nothing but bolster a sense of entitlement and with it little or no work ethic among most public employees. I won't get into how it contributes to increasing costs and taxes for the rest of us. People are not forced to work for the MTA, they willingly take the jobs and the system is vital to the function of the city, hence the reason for the Taylor law. They willingly and knowingly broke the law and thus have to pay the consequences.

k

Sat, 29 Apr 2006 19:49:33 -0500

People who talk about and end of "union extortion" are amusing, mostly because they don't seem to understand how capitalism works, but most likely wouldn't want to live in a world without it.

simon lok

Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:47:10 -0500

This is rediculous. I hope the arbitration is very hard on the union... the days of union extortion making all of us pay will hopefully come to an end one day soon.