[BC] Cable pricing and regulators

[Rich Wood]

------ At 11:38 AM 12/25/2005, Mike McCarthy wrote: -------

> From what my brother told me, the MTA union caved because the rank 
> and file didn't have the stomach to take the $1M/day fines and bad 
> PR for wages and issues new hires were going to encounter.  That 
> and a LOT of people had issue with MTA bus drivers making more than 
> many people with 4 year degrees.  Sorry, I too find it hard to 
> stomach a bus driver making $100K/yr. straight time.

Strange. All the stories I read about it indicated the maximum wage 
was $55,000. In New York City that's the poverty level. New York is 
an incredible place to live if you can and want to afford it. When my 
rent went to $3000 a month for a typical 1 bedroom apartment it was 
time to leave.

These are incredibly valuable people to a city like New York. Someone 
made the comment that the Mayor can leave the city for 3 days and no 
one notices. Transit workers go out and the city almost stops cold.

Rich