Strike III - USA - Bus Drivers and their Economic Leverage
New York,NY,USA -New York Post, by TERRY KEENAN -18 Dec 2005: -- DO you wonder why the city's 34,000 transit workers have been able to hold millions of straphangers hostage with their threats of an illegal strike, while workers at Ford and GM have agreed to billions of dollars in healthcare concessions?... In a word: outsourcing... The bus you ride to work could easily (and more economically) be manufactured overseas, but the man or woman who drives it everyday cannot be outsourced to China or India... As Jesse Jackson summed it up simply to transit workers at a rally in Midtown this week: "When you stop rolling, New York walks. Thus..."
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