Rich

Labor Economist. Trade Unionist.

[TWU @transportworker]

Let's Go #Knicks. @TWULocal100 Central Park Carriage Horse Drivers and iconic #carriagehorses showing love for #NYC and our #NewYorkKnicks team in the #NBAfinals as we all look forward to Game three at MSG Monday night. @nyknicks @NBA @ESPNNBA @TheKnicksWall #NBAFinals #NewYorkForever

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Dave Matthews: “​I will never stop calling for an end to the violence in Gaza and the West Bank and Lebanon and for that matter the Congo and Sudan and Ukraine or the horrific violence against immigrants and their neighbors in our country”

[Emma Vigeland @EmmaVigeland]

This moved me to tears dude

[Rich @pantojar]

https://t.co/Vb7KJbFtzb

[TWU @transportworker]

Great news for ALL workers @GoBrightline, where the TWU represents Onboard Attendants and Lead Attendants. The federal Railroad Retirement Board has determined all Brightline workers are covered by RRB’s retirement, sick and unemployment plans, which are far more beneficial than what Brightline and the state of Florida provide. @twusamuelsen Read the full decision here: https://t.co/xjs4BrbzyY,

[Rich @pantojar]

@MattBruenig In my experience employers (ridiculously) already feel like they pay both sides of it anyway.

[Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau]

NBA teams were 3-747 when down by 20 or more in the 4th quarter of a playoff game over the last 30 years. They are now 4-747.

Knicks come back from 22 in the fourth quarter, the second-largest 4th quarter comeback in the playoffs in the play-by-play era (since 1997).

[Kate Willett @katewillett]

Fun idea. If you are jealous unionized workers have a good salary and benefits unionize your own workplace and win that too

[The Midwestern Century🇵🇸🇦🇲🇱🇧 @Rust_Belt_Red]

A lot of you fuckers aren't from a union family and it shows

[Pete Donohue @pdonohue1964]

The PEB legally had to choose the most reasonable offer and sided with the unions seeking average annual raises of 3.6% - very reasonable with inflation. The @MTA put forth an offer that would have “resulted in a 2% real wage loss” for workers, the PEB wrote. Why? Did they want to cause a strike? If you don’t want to pay overtime, manage around it or hire more people.

[Keith Orejel @keithdorejel]

I think this is why the LIRR thing makes me so mad. Dems are heading for a landslide victory because of inflation and a cost of living crisis. Why turn your fire on workers whose wages are being eroded at the exact moment when they are turning against Trumps failed policies.

[Rich @pantojar]

@TwuSamuelsen @keithdorejel “Abundance for me, but not for thee.”

[Rep. Jack Kimble @RepJackKimble]

Just a friendly warning. We don’t even make $200k per year in Congress despite working nearly 140 days. If we aren’t properly compensated, a lot of us will go to the private sector and you will be left with some real idiots in Congress.

[Jason Murillo for NY Senate @JasonMurilloNY]

Real talk: LIRR workers are striking because they can’t survive on what they’re being offered in one of the most expensive regions in America.

Hard-working New Yorkers deserve livable wages and also give relief to those who ride LIRR daily #LIRRStrike #UnionStrong #LowerFares

[Jessica 🌹🇵🇸 @NYCJessa]

I am a LIRR rider & I support this strike. She doesn't speak for me. The workers on strike are not going to settle for what is essentially a pay cut. I want the workers who work on the trains to be well compensated & energized to continue keeping me safe! #UnionProud #UnionStrong

[Claire Valdez @claireforny]

Solidarity with the 3,500 @LIRR engineers, signalmen, machinists and other railroad workers who walked out on their first strike in 32 years last night.

The @MTA had every opportunity to bargain in good faith. Now management’s failures are being imposed on riders.

[Majority Leader Shaun Abreu @CMShaunAbreu]

LIRR’s workers are indispensable to a system that hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers rely on every single day.

They deserve a contract with fair wages and safe working conditions that reflect the essential work they do. I urge both sides to stay at the bargaining table.

[mindy🌷 @mindyisser]

because of the railway labor act, a strike like this is incredibly difficult to pull off and takes years of mediation and multiple cooling off periods. i believe that these workers wouldn’t go through all of that if they felt like raises were keeping up with inflation.

[Ohio Republican Party @ohiogop]

Ohio is home to the world's largest basket-shaped building. If Amy Acton were Governor, this is what it would look like.

We can't let that happen.

[John Samuelsen @TwuSamuelsen]

If @LIRR workers take strike action the blame lies solely on @GovKathyHochul , who is unprecedentedly rejecting the recommendations of two independent federal mediation panels established by the National Mediation Board. Hochul is single-handed triggering this strike. The board recommended reasonable raises , averaging around 3.5% annual over the life of the contract , but Hochul would rather strand 300,000 daily riders from Nassau , Suffolk and the rest of downstate New York. Working people should never underestimate a politicians’ ability to engage in brainless actions. @NYSAFLCIO @CentralLaborNYC @transportworker @TWULocal100