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To: tejek who wrote (468137)	4/1/2009 11:38:48 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574604

Apparently, you've seen this in a report......can you give me a link to it? TIA. Here it is. Confidential. 1. we employ and grossly overpay our unproductive union workforce, which lead us ask for: 2. bailout (from city, state and the feds) On top of this, we are going to: 3. increase our our rates by 25% and: 4. cut service Signed, MTA board of directors

To: tejek who wrote (468137)	4/1/2009 11:50:03 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574604

Ted, Because you grew up in a communist nation, you have a bias that borders on hysteria with certain subjects. Unions are one of those subjects. What I learned about the unions, I learned in the US. The US is a laboratory of what happens when the unions run amok. Kind of like the CDS department of AIG, except, the damage caused by AIG guys hit us like a dam bursting, whereas unions are like a death by water torture. Just like mgmt whch can be good or bad depending on the company. Please stop painting everything with a broad brush. Back in communist Czechoslovakia, there were unions, but they were largely symbolic, benign. In post communist Czech Rep. and Slovakia, he unions are still relatively benign. So it is within the realm of possibility for union to be not cancerous, or only pre-metastasis cancerous. But the unions in the US are a different story. Public or private. And at the extreme level (not counting outright criminal longshoremen) is UAW. Joe