Standing With The Working Man By Fucking Over The Working Man

The Times, stating the obvious:

The burden of the strike fell unevenly upon New Yorkers of different classes.

For many living in Manhattan, the strike remained an inconvenience, not a hardship. Some, like Dave Halman, a 35-year-old Wall Street banker, worked from home the first day. On Wednesday, he was out on West 96th Street waiting for a company shuttle. “It’s fine,” he said. “We went through the blackout, 9/11 and now most people are taking this in stride.”

But for many more, the impact was harsher. Stan Decker said he had walked nearly seven miles from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn to Jamaica, Queens. “They’re hurting the ordinary people, they’re not hurting the big shots,” Mr. Decker, 59, said of the union. A union member himself, he complained, “Everybody’s paying for health insurance. Why should they be different? When they overdo it like this, they hurt unions because if gives people a bad impression.