when bloomberg goes out... you should go out with him... your NOT a part of our Family...

It just goes to show that we are all one family and will continue fighting till the end...
See you all at work Wednesday! Thanks for all the updates and opinions through this battle.

I totally agree with you!

we cannot give up. If the parents get a law suit or the national labor board gets back involved, or cuomo helps in this, we have a shot.. we are all suffering right now, we just have to hang in there and stand strong.. somethings gotta give.. and it will eventually be in our favor..

I would NEVER sit on his lap.. he left us without health insurance... he sucks in my book... when we go back, I would never do any favors for them....

You have some serious mental problems.. just listen how you talk to fellow brothers.. wow...
we are all in this together.. no matter what happens...

I wish the union would update us, and keep us in the loop...too many rumors going around..

what do you think of Neils recent letter???

Does anyone know if and when an appeal will be for our medical coverage???

I hope she helps us succeed!

I hear ya! I agree!

I understand, but the 1,100 runs that are up in June, If those drivers lose those runs, do you know what happens?? It becomes a union master pick, in senority..  and then what?? If we dont' get the epp put back in, then the union is going to have to protect us in senority, and those guys will take our runs..  If our buses start rolling out of that gate, we got problems..  I think he has 60 or 70 drivers already hired.. a police officer told me. Alot of drivers and matrons that I am talking to feel the same as I do.. and want to go back to work now.. You hear one thing on the news and that's it.. not enough is going on...  I wish the union would simply end the strike and negotiate another way..

We should all go back to work and re-negotiate this differently...can't you see striking is NOT working.. If the mayor gives the contractors permission to hire drivers, we can be permanently out of a job... If all the bus companies stood with us, we would probably have a shot, but we don't have that shot, these other unions are working right now,, How does that make us look?  We all have jobs till June,, let's go back to work.. Tomorrow is the last day of medical benefits..

Lets just get one thing straight.  I want nothing more then to have the EPP back, and go back to work. However,  there is always that possibility of something..  I can express myself as everyone else can.  I stand tall with everyone here. It is just that in 1979 there were only two bus companies and they were union. Today there are alot of non-union out there, that's all I am saying. I hope it works in our favor, believe me!!!  Do you think anything will come out of this meeting on Monday? I am very concerned about not having health insurance at the end of the week, along with alot of other drivers/matrons who voiced their concerns on the strike line. We are not city employees, although I wish we were.  We work for contractors.. I hope next week things come to a speedy conclusion in our favor... Also, the mayor said the EPP was illegal.... Does he have a copy of the mollen agreement!!!! to show it was a legal documentation....

After reviewing all of this, It is back to the same which I said before... It is time to give back to protect our jobs.. Just think, The mayor will not be in office when the other runs are up in 2015. This will give us power and strength.. Just think to give back some in order to protect our jobs,, I think it is worth it.  Not to give back everything, just something, so we can have our jobs. If Reliant picked up the work, we go after him, because he is 1181.. It's all competitive bargaining,, The contractors want to get bigger, because they then have more power.  What are your thoughts on all this?? Let's not be selfish....