While the union was supposedly fighting for the average worker, many temps and contract workers were left out in the cold without any way of making it to work. Again, many of these workers, like me, don’t have the paid days off or benefits that the transit workers have enjoyed for decades. What the TWU did IS illegal, as such, some NY’ers are taking it up with the courts (something that I’m going to look further into):

http://nydailynews.com/front/story/376885p-320211c.html

In addition to the NY Daily news tips, here’s how to start a small claims case:

http://www.courts.state.ny.us/courts/nyc/smallclaims/startingcase.shtml

Information to have handy:
TWU Local 100 Headquarters
80 West End Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10023, 212-873-6000

File your case electronically (for just under $30)
Intresys TurboCourt

nCourt

Originally recieved via email, but also seen on Banterist 

T’was five days before Christmas and all through the town;
Not a train was up running; they’d all been shut down.
 
The turnstiles were locked and the stations were cleared,
In hopes that Old Bloomberg would give them their share.
 
The workers were nestled all snug in their booths;
Where often they’re found sleeping, to tell you the truth.
Toussaint wants their pensions to be like the cops’ —
You know, cause it’s stressful announcing each stop.
 
Alas, from the public arose such a clatter,
Their leader seems not to have thought out the matter.
 
With shoppers not shopping and travel delayed,
Public support dwindled, New Yorkers’ nerves frayed.
 
You dumb, lazy morons!  The people did cry.
Pensions the same as the FDNY?
It’ll cost us a fortune, illiterate twits!
The people weren’t happy.  In fact, they threw fits.
 
There’s strength in a union, or so they believed;
but not before Christmas — now everyone’s peeved.
 
It’s terrible timing for stranding the masses;
If Reagan were here, he’d have fired your asses.