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Re: Why are MTA workers not striking due to tonight's conductor assault? |
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Posted by Nilet on Sat Jul 20 07:36:58 2019, in response to Re: Why are MTA workers not striking due to tonight's conductor assault?, posted by Jsun21 on Sat Jul 20 06:59:46 2019. That's not true, being face to face with the public during a disruption or any negative situation is an intense situation.Yes, but that's intrinsic to the job. There's no way the MTA could implement policies that ensure transit workers never interact with the public. Part of that is created by the current PR campaign that MTA workers are lazy, pension defrauding thieves. I don't think the MTA itself is running such a campaign. That seems more like the New York Post's territory, which the MTA has no control over. Now you're stuck underground and the public begins looking for people to 'hold accountable'. The number one cause of OOS bus drivers is public assault, because they know there is no police presence except on SBS. Except there's no evidence that people attack transit workers because they're mad at the MTA. The incident mentioned in the OP didn't specify a motivation, but vaguely implied the attacker may have been a vandal who got caught. Either way, the remote chance that someone might attack a front-line employee due to anger at management is a risk associated with any customer-facing position and not directly a union issue per se. You have to realize that the MTA has its own Police force, so saying its entirely outside their control is complete BS but it is something that gets suggested. No police force can guarantee crimes never happen. Providing a police escort to all MTA employees at all times is plainly impossible. If there are enough police to sit in every break room, or monitor attendance at railroad facilities then they can spare a few people to sit on a bus or roam trains. They can't spare a few people to sit on every bus and train, which is what you'd need to perfectly deter all crimes against MTA employees. The answer to the strike question is, in brief, its illegal. Even without the dubiously-constitutional Taylor law, there's no chance a union would call a strike simply because one of its members was assaulted on the job by one rando once. |
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