NYC Transit Strike question

Dec 21: NYC Transit Strike question

Every time I hear about the strike, the fact that it is an illegal strike is mentioned. My question is, how can that be? I know that there is a law in NYC that makes it illegal for public workers to strike, so I understand why it's illegal. But, how is that law legal? Isn't striking protected speech? How do 'they' justify disallowing only certain workers the right to strike?

These are questions that I've been thinking about, but haven't done any research on yet. So, if anyone has any insight, I'd appreciate it.

Defined tags for this entry: 1

Posted by ben in Government and Politics on 12/21/05 13:05 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

Trackbacks

Trackback specific URI for this entry

No Trackbacks

Comments

Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)

I think that unions cannot typically strike against the government (city, state, federal, etc), because then the gov't can't function. Fire department, police, etc; they all have unions but typically can't strike. Ronald Reagan famously fired all the air traffic controllers after they tried to strike in the '80's.

#1 rob (Homepage) on 2005-12-23 11:29 (Reply)

Yeah, but how is that legal? I see the employer/empoyee relationship as the same (government vs. company). It seems to unfairly remove an important right just because you work for the government. If the gov. doesn't want to shutdown, they should treat their employees fairly.

#1.1 Ben (Homepage) on 2005-12-23 11:33 (Reply)

Add Comment

Name
Email
Homepage
In reply to
Comment	Enclosing asterisks marks text as bold (word), underscore are made via _word_. Standard emoticons like :-) and ;-) are converted to images. BBCode format allowed E-Mail addresses will not be displayed and will only be used for E-Mail notifications
	Remember Information? Subscribe to this entry