What's the real story behind the threatened bus strike: are the bus drivers the enemy or part of the 99%?
The real facts behind the threatened school bus strike are difficult to untangle. As the NY Times explainedtoday, the mayor's position is a reversal of his previous one:
The specter of a strike is an interesting turn of events for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. For years, his administration had fought alongside the union to keep the seniority-based protections in the contracts, in part because removing them could have prompted the union to strike. In July, however, the city made an about-face, asking Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to veto a bill it had helped develop that would have extended the protections to
