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Re:Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing the... by chimeracoder on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @05:57PM (#18189280)
> If you found a cheaper supplier of milk, would you feel obligated to reimburse your milk man?

According to the TWU, yes - the MTA is required to pay the TWU $450,000 whenever it uses a machine to bore tunnels, because forty years ago, that job would have been performed by a human instead.

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Re:Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing the... by briandear on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @06:20PM (#18189455)
Well that's just dumb. Taxpayers are subsidizing TWU -- actually paying for absolutely nothing in return.
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Re:Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing the... by chimeracoder on Thursday October 11, 2018 @12:59AM (#18191049)
> Well that's just dumb. Taxpayers are subsidizing TWU -- actually paying for absolutely nothing in return.

I agree that it is a terrible idea. Unfortunately, NY government (and the elections) are so corrupt that there's literally nothing we can do about it.

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