{"id":584,"date":"2006-01-05T09:43:02","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T17:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/01\/thats_america.html"},"modified":"2006-01-05T09:43:02","modified_gmt":"2006-01-05T17:43:02","slug":"thats_america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/01\/thats_america.html","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Post reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/59894.htm\">transit union officials are selling autographed copies of the posters carried on the picket lines during their recent (illegal!) strike<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A top union official is trying to &#8220;strike&#8221; it rich by selling autographed copies of the walkout posters transit workers carried on the picket line.<\/p>\n<p>Eladio Diaz, who brags he was the Transit Workers Union Local 100 &#8220;executive board member who made the motion&#8221; to strike, says the placard is signed by him and a slew of board members and other union reps.<\/p>\n<p>With the posters currently going for $15, Diaz is unlikely to make a dent in the millions in fines faced by Local 100 and its members, but New Yorkers and transit officials said it was outrageous to profiteer from the strike.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s totally inappropriate. It appears they&#8217;re gloating,&#8221; said MTA board member Frank Powers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing to be proud of. Look at the discomfort they caused the city. They should be ashamed of themselves,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>But Powers said he&#8217;s not surprised because &#8220;this is America.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Post reports that transit union officials are selling autographed copies of the posters carried on the picket lines during their recent (illegal!) strike: A top union official is trying to &#8220;strike&#8221; it rich by selling autographed copies of the walkout posters transit workers carried on the picket line. Eladio Diaz, who brags he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap_your_pants_say_yeah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","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=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}