[yalph]

I am progressive as it gets but living in NY and witnessing the current state of MTA plus attitude of other union workers my ideas about unions has changed completely. We have to find better ways to protect our workers without letting them abuse the system.

[guitarbill]

Has anyone here as part of their job had to work with a union? My interactions have also been... challenging at best, with a lot of red tape. I chalked it up to a one-off bad experience, but wondering now if it's more common.

[anothergoogler]

The article doesn't say anything about NYC or the MTA, did you even read it, or are you replying to the words "pro-union" in the submission title?

[yalph]

Since when discussions on a HN thread are limited to the keyword on an article? It seems like you are the one who did not understand the context of the article. My comment is about relevancy of unions in our day. I apologize if everyone else thinks my comment was off topic.

[noobermin]

Imagine criticizing coffee shops as a whole because you got bad coffee at a starbucks. Is there something inherent to unions that make them generally bad?

BTW, the issues with the NY subway have little to do with the TWU and more to do with mismanagement by Cuomo.

[anothergoogler]

Your comment is lazy. You saw "pro-union" in the submission title and delivered a canned anti-union reply. It's discouraging that you've misinterpreted my single-sentence comment and inverted its meaning in your reply just now, but I trust that you can persist through the entire article submission and formulate a relevant reply, if you are motivated to do so.