Here's the letter I sent to Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Pataki's emails:
Please advocate on behalf of those who elected you to office (the people of NYC) and demand that the MTA cooperate and negotiate with reasonable offers to its employees. By defending the MTA, you're demonstrating that you are unable to look past your own wealth and represent the interests of the public, the working class--the majority of the city! Subjecting any workers (present or future) to what may seem monetarily insignificant for you may very well take food out of someone's mouth. People are barely making it as is. So every percent does count! New York City residents, including city workers, are working harder and harder with less salaries and benefits to show for it. The MTA must not continue to go unchecked and beyond city law when it is our tax dollars and (overpriced) fares that fund it. A billion dollar surplus thrown away on cash holiday discounts? How about commuter monthly pass discounts? How about buses that accept dollar bills? It's time NYC returned to the residents and stopped being a theme park for tourists and the mega-rich.
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