Jeez ... that's a lot of caviar.

I read the comment on Philip Klein's post and although the workers cannot be liable, the organization that commands the workers to violate the law certainly can.

Sue the bastards into oblivion. As so many lawyers say when they wakeup every morning.

Well the city and the mayor don't control the MTA, and the MTA didn't break the law and go on strike. So suing them doesn't make any sense. But yes, please sue the TWU for all they aren't worth and more. There should be lawyers on a picket line outside of the TWU office and outside of every bus depot, transit hub, etc. Since government didn't do it's job in punishing those bastards sufficiently, let private litigation step in and show them how it's supposed to be done.

Rememeber when conservatives opposed silly law suits and the trail lawyers ?

Von Bek:

This is not a silly suit. Hundreds of millions were lost because of the TWU. I would like to see them pay.

Dan

I don't deny that but for one restaurant to sue for $250 million dollars for three days is silly. They don't do that much business in three days. Granted, they can sue for other plantiffs as well. I would say let the other plantiffs sue for their own damages. I have no love of public service unions, especially when they strike against the common good. A true American conservative, Calvin Coolidge, during his tenure as governor of Mass,handled it very well when the cops went on strike. Still, my distaste for unions in general, and public service ones in particular, does not interfere with the principle that a damaged party should take action on its own and obtain its own recourse, not pressing for outrageous claims on behalf of themselves and others. For if this were to happen, make no mistake who would eventually pay: the indentured servants/taypayers of New York. Pataki, Spitzer, Bruno, Silver and the others would rather bow to the unions than the people. And frankly the people of New York, when push comes to shove, generally seem to embrace taxes than freedom.