[Pippoles]

I hope the city fires each and every last one of them...a 12% raise in this economy?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/ny...l?ref=nyregion

I am firing workers because of the Metropolitan Mobility Commuter tax - yet another instance of legalized theft from the filth in Albany such as Espada, Monserrate, etc - and now the MTA will be even further in the hole due to these unacceptable raises?

It is time to disband all public unions, starting with this one, enough is absolutely enough.

The taxes and fees in NYC are high enough already - its because of the healthcare unions that NY spends more than double the next highest state in medicaid costs - the tax base is vanishing, how much more do the criminal unions think they can squeeze the rest of the city?

As it is, there are over 300,000 people out of 8 million working for the city - this is just insane, and totally unsustainable.

I would threaten to fire every MTA worker if they do not accept the rescision of this raise, and accept that there are 1,000 people ready to step in for each and every job if they are unhappy with their current salary.