New York transit workers set up picket lines: “Today’s strike is for all working people”

by wsws (reposted)

Wed, Dec 21, 2005 7:25AM

Tens of thousands of New York City transit workers walked off the job Tuesday morning and set up picket lines at bus barns and train yards scattered throughout the city, shutting down operations that move some seven million passengers daily, the largest mass transit system in the US.

The strike, the first on the city’s subways and buses in 25 years, drew strong support not only from transit workers, but from working people throughout the city. The widespread backing for the strikers was in the teeth of a media barrage blaming the strikers, rather than the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and Mayor Michael Bloomberg, for the massive disruption to the city’s economic life. The city administration has estimated that losses from the walkout will total as much as $400 million a day.

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