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Letters to the Editor January 20, 2006  RSS feed

THE CHIEF-LEADER welcomes letters from its readers for publication.
Correspondents must include their names, addresses and
phone numbers. Letters should be submitted with the understanding
that all correspondence is subject to the editorial judgment of this
newspaper. Letters can be e-mailed to: RSTEIER@RCN.COM or
mailed to: Richard Steier, Editor, 277 Broadway, Suite 1506, NY, NY
10007.



Letters to the Editor: Local 100 Entitled to Refunds
     To the Editor: The new TWU Local 100 contract with the MTA has a provision for previous (prior to 2001) pension payment refunds (subject to Governor Pataki’s approval). I think that the union can demand such refunds under the Constitution of the State of New York.
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Toussaint a Model
     To the Editor: I’m writing in response to the letter you printed from Richard Laurie, in the Jan. 13 edition, entitled “Toussaint Blew It.” Laurie starts out his diatribe by stating, “Roger Toussaint is a grievous embarrassment to Transport Workers’ Union Local 100.”
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Mayor Crossed Line
     To the Editor: Transit workers day in and day out run the subways and buses, doing all of the dirty work that goes with the job. They take all kinds of abuse, sometimes getting hurt, and some have been killed.
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More ‘237’ Politics
     To the Editor: For many years, School Safety Agents have requested that the union pursue the possibility of having civil service status applied to their title, which would add respect and certainty to their job. So, it is baffling to us that Eunice Rodriguez, School Safety Agent Level 3, in her Jan
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Can’t Gut Fire Cos.
     To the Editor: Regarding Cy Horowitz’s letter (Jan. 13 issue) concerning finding busy work for the FDNY:
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Scrap Fire Medics
     To the Editor: As a longtime writer for Firehouse Magazine, producer for American Heat video, and a member of the staff of EMS Local 2507 for a decade, I read Cy Horowitz’s letter about FDNY “down time” with interest, as well as the responses to it. If you look at the numbers, EMS is the tail that
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