{"id":520,"date":"2005-12-08T10:09:42","date_gmt":"2005-12-08T18:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/12\/a_declaration_of_war.html"},"modified":"2005-12-08T10:09:42","modified_gmt":"2005-12-08T18:09:42","slug":"a_declaration_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/a_declaration_o.html","title":{"rendered":"A Declaration Of War!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do we know that the maybe-perhaps strike threat is pure theater? All this great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/372849p-317083c.html\">theatrical hyperbole<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The MTA proposed yesterday giving city bus and subway workers a 5% raise over two years, provided they call in sick less often &#8212; prompting one union official to call the offer a declaration of &#8220;war.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With the contract set to expire in just eight days and the union not ruling out a strike, the MTA&#8217;s chief labor negotiator, Gary Dellaverson, made the agency&#8217;s first wage offer: a 3% raise followed by a 2% increase.<\/p>\n<p>But the workforce would have to earn the second-year increase by reducing the number of sick days taken.<\/p>\n<p>MTA officials say key groups of workers &#8212; including bus drivers, motormen and subway station agents &#8211;average more than 13 sick days a year.<\/p>\n<p>Transport Workers Union Local 100 President Roger Toussaint called the proposal an &#8220;insult.&#8221; Vice President Ainsley Stewart went further, saying: &#8220;They have declared war.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At least they didn&#8217;t declare jihad . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do we know that the maybe-perhaps strike threat is pure theater? All this great theatrical hyperbole: The MTA proposed yesterday giving city bus and subway workers a 5% raise over two years, provided they call in sick less often &#8212; prompting one union official to call the offer a declaration of &#8220;war.&#8221; With the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fear_mongering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}