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[malsperanza]

Although I feel rotten for the merchants in midtown and downtown New York, losing essential business a week before xmas, I am all admiration for the courage of the Transit Workers Union. Not only that, but I worked at home today and got twice as much as usual done, in my pj's, with my cats. And without having to talk to the unutterable jackasses and nitbrains for whom I putatively work.

But. The Youth of Today? What IS up with them? One twentysomething in my office remarked yesterday that the transit workers didn't deserve such good salaries because they are uneducated. Apparently people without a degree should be on welfare and unable to feed their children or get them to college. This from a guy who fancies himself a lefty and is (of course) a child of white middle-class privilege. Another (also a liberal right-thinking scion of good family) grumped that we don't have a real pension plan, so why should our hard-earned busfare go to pay for them to have one? I suggested that perhaps, maybe, just maybe, the solution to that would be for us to have a union of our own, not to undermine theirs. Duh.

Makes me feel very Old Left.

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[porcinea.livejournal.com]

Yes! I heard from one friend who's pissed because the striking workers already have better salaries and benefits than her circle of friends. So *unionize*, already. No?

[larryhammer]

Oy. Um, yeah, that's the rite of passage between Young Leftie and Old Leftie.

---L.