Just before Christmas New York’s transportation Union strong arms have decided to start an illegal strike. It is now day 2 of the illegal strike. About 33,000 Union members have joined with their foolish leaders in shutting down mass transportation in the city. About 900 transportation workers have crossed the strike line and shown they will not join with the band of fools. I’ve got a message for all you New York Transport Workers Union members on strike and I hope it can be made official, YOU’RE FIRED! Everyone taking part in the illegal strike should be fired for breaking the law and simply being pains in the butt near Christmas.

You can read the media report about this whole mess here. The video on that page really gives the sad picture. Millions of people depend on that transit system daily. (Over 3 million daily riders.) Which is why any kind of strike was outlawed in the first place. The union leaders should be imprisoned for inciting this illegal activity. Just a $1 million a day fine and no pay for people on strike is not good enough. Imprison the union leaders, fire the members that don’t want to work and have the biggest job fair to hire new workers that the city has ever seen. This mess is costing the city $700 million a day! The pension benefits, health care benefits and pay raise desires of 33,000 do not outweigh the needs of an entire city. Fire their butts! Then we’ll see how they act when they have no pay, no health care and no pension. I’m sure there are others looking for work that won’t mind the current pay, health care and whatever retirement package is offered.

My solution for this illegal strike is a real free market system. Fire people that don’t want to show up for work and hire new people in their place.

Given this action the Transport Workers Union should be disbanded and no future union allowed!

update (12/22/2005 2:19PM ET): After giving themselves a couple of extra days off to do their Christmas shopping, the union goons have decided to end their strike and get their butts back to work! I guess the threats of imprisonment and bigger fines on regular members did the trick. Now the city needs to disband that union before it threatens them again with their strong arm tactics.

You’ll never see a mess like this at Wal Mart. Because regardless of whatever else they do, the one thing they get right is no unions!