From: grammatim@verizon.net   
      
   On Friday, July 18, 2014 11:07:12 AM UTC-4, danny burstein wrote:   
   > In  han   
   ock4@bbs.cpcn.com writes:   
      
   > >SEPTA hss no agreement with its transit workers and they've been working   
   > >without a contract for several months.  In the old days they would've   
   > >struck the instant the contract expired without a new agreement.   
   >   
   > Bullshit that they're "without a contract". Are they getting paid?   
   > Is their healthplan getting funded? Is money being sent to their   
   > pension plan?   
      
   If they were in New Jersey, the answer to the last question is, probably   
   not. That scum Christie prefers to not meet pension obligations over   
   raising the taxes needed to cover his stupidly optimistic revenue   
   projections that he has used every year to claim he knows what he's   
   doing.   
      
   > This is the nonsense that NYC gov't workers peddle all the time.   
   > The reality is that (in the vast, vast, majority of case) the   
   > terms of the previous contract are simply extended.   
   > The "we're working without a contract" meme needs to be   
   > properly read as "we haven't gotten any additional raises".   
      
   Contracts are about many many many other things than "raises."   
      
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