Letter To NY Citizenry

Dear New York,

My love for Wu-Tang knows no bounds. I haven't slept in years because I'm lost on my way to Brooklyn. You make the best pizza on the planet. I love you and I've been only twice in my life.

But you have to treat your transit workers like human beings.

Currently we're on a worker's rights trend that will certainly leave us broke, blind, bedlam, or all fucking three. The people that are striking are doing it to protect people they've never even met: the future transit workers. Some of them may be your sons and daughters. It's important work because you need to use the subway to get to fucking work, don't you? And now you're left with the proverbial dilznick because "the workers are greedy," right? Wrong. MTA has a huge surplus this year, and rather than share it or at least use it to improve the service, it will probably use it to pay top officials. In short, the greed you see is on the top not on the bottom.

Not only that, but they're going to go two-tier wage system. The workers don't want it not because it doesn't benefit them (which it doesn't) but because it will hurt future workers (a definite truth.) By going two-tier, it means that people in the future will make less and get less as a raise when they start after this contract. In theory, the workers under the previous contracts should be happy (they get to keep their good wages and other people start lower) but they KNOW ITS WRONG.

NY, show some nuts. I know you guys have them, you're the home of Law and Order and of NY Undercover, and those guys were fucking tough. Show people that you're not the greedy, selfish, dickheads that the public thinks you are (and oddly strives to be) and be the asskicking, nutbusting, don't-take-any-shit-off-nobody-because-I'm-from-Brownsville-and-I-live-in-a-ninth-floor-walkup kind of town that I think, know, and admire you for being.

No deal, no work, no discussion.

Live+die=Bedstuy

PS - Give my regards to Brooklyn.