New York City Strike Leaders Get a Slap on the Wrist

The New York Times reports:

Roger Toussaint, the president of Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union, was sentenced today to 10 days in jail and fined $1,000 by Judge Theodore T. Jones of the State Supreme Court in Brooklyn in connection with last December's transit strike.

The sentence is not to take effect for 30 days, and Mr. Toussaint can appeal the ruling during that time.

Two other officials of the 33,700-member local, Ed Watt, the secretary-treasurer, and Darlyne Lawson, the recording secretary, were each sentenced to $500 fines.

Mr. Toussaint and the two others were found to be in contempt of court for refusing to order their members back to work after the illegal strike commenced late in December, during the busy holiday season. The strike ended on Dec. 22, after three days of turmoil.

Just think,these tyrants caused millions of dollars of lost economic productivity and this is laughable punishment they get.Does it make sense to give a group a monopoly on transportation on an island? You see how their promise of obeying the law is a joke.The politicians that take money from these union bosses are just tools of a corrupt union movement.