fire every single one of them and convert to buses/trucks
problem solved

The oligarchs need more union dues.

>>2073619
based but they say the trains being shut down costs 60 million dollars a day

I'm ok with this. Strikes are not a credible threat unless they happen sometimes. They happen far less often in the US than in other developed countries.

"That person is asking for a higher salary than I am earning so this should be illegal and the government should send in the troops" is how everyone gets fucked over. Yet Americans fall for it over, and over, and over again.

>>2073617
>LIRR workers in the striking unions have a median/average salary around $131,000–$136,000 (highest-paid railroad workers in the U.S.)
Guaranteed extraboard for conductors when I left CN was over $129k/year. That was 2 years ago. A regular job with no OT was $143k/year. Railroaders are over paid whiny shitheads.

>>2073617
As a long time user of MTA, LIRR and NJ Transit this makes me SO HAPPY! I hope it lasts all week and the MTA and city bleed billions. Fucking embarrassment of a public transit system in the most expensive and populous metropolitan area.

>>2073656
Faggot bootlicker take

>>2073656
>>2073665
But they work for the public sector. There’s no competition and our taxes pay them

>>2073665
Public sector unions are bigger thugs than the mob.

>>2073677
>>2073680
Don’t care, don’t pay taxes. Audit the MTA and they can clean house while they’re at it

>>2073656
So they're perfect for serving Long Islanders.
Hell half the shit I read about this had references to the costs Ryder Cup last Summer.

>>2073656
you basically need to make $125k just to afford living on long island

>>2073628
>"That person is asking for a higher salary than I am earning so this should be illegal and the government should send in the troops" is how everyone gets fucked over. Yet Americans fall for it over, and over, and over again.
what is this even supposed to convey?

>>2073942
americans are all crabs in bucket retards and the only people who are paid fairly in their eyes are amazon workers and maybe retail

>>2073937
the average house in long island starts at $7-800k and you absolutely need a car to live there

>>2073656
This is why this whole "abundance" movement is such a deeply unserious internet ideology. Things are expensive mostly because of high labour costs probably. Where as China is going through the industrial revolution only now 100 years late and they have such a massive population they can always recruit a couple of thousands from the less developed countryside. Western countries did the exact same thing back in the 19th and 20th century, railways could just recruit tens of thousands of people in no time. For this reason I find China somewhat overrated

>>2073617
faggots, they should all be fired and replaced with h1bs for 30k

>>2073983
back when the west were real countries and not the post-apocalyptic feminism run dystopias we are now
a BYD couldn't happen in the west

>>2073624
good, hitting em in the purse is the only way to get protestant corpo lizardfolk to do anything

>>2073997
a BYD can't happen in the west because westerners are barred from developing skills. the entire system is arranged so that you get as bad an education as possible, then have no space or tools to develop skills on your own.

>>2073997
>a BYD couldn't happen in the west
A BYD couldn't happen in the west because we already have automobile manufacturers and they all agree "fuck any new competition."
And even with all the uphill struggle, Tesla happened somehow. The real reason it was over-valued wasn't entirely because it was Elon Musk (but he did cash in on the over-hype). It was because it was a brand new automobile manufacturer that wasn't saddled with decades of debt restructuring after debt restructuring, and investors were like, "holy fuck, if this actually happens against all odds..."

>>2073997
Eh, Tesla is still considered to have somewhat better ride quality overall, no? And both BMW and Mercedes are coming up, they just need to improve the software a bit, the actual cars are really good now. And the most sold EV brand in Europe was VW last year.

>>2073680
Public sector unions ARE the mob. They went legit like 30 years ago, now every garbage collector, track layer, and pothole filler in NYC is Italian.

>>2074054
explain all the moolies and mulignans in the mta

its the caribbean mafia

unironically the only public agency that's majority white would probably be fdny...i dont even think dsny is majority white if you've seen the average sanman in nyc