Na marginesie ostatniego strajku metra w Nowym Jorku. Jakis cwany
prawnik liczy na drapane i chce pozwac zwiazek zawodowy o straty
restauracji. Strajk byl "nielegalny", o ile przyjac ze lokakny przepis
zabraniajacy strajku jest zgodny z konstytucja (nietestowane w sadach).

Pytanie teoretyczne: czy w Polsce mialby sznase?







Thursday, Dec. 22, 2005

Restaurant sues over lost earnings due to New York City transit strike

(AP) - NEW YORK-Owners of a theater district restaurant sued the
Transport Workers Union, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and
the city Thursday in what was apparently the first lawsuit over
financial losses due to the transit strike.

Owners of the Russian Samovar, partly owned by dancer Mikhail
Baryshnikov until earlier this year, said the walkout and restrictions
on vehicles entering Manhattan had caused the West 52nd Street
restaurant to suffer a loss of customers and revenue.

The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan state Supreme Court, blames all sides of
the labor dispute for the strike, saying the union struck illegally
because the state's Taylor law bars walkouts by public employees, and
because the same law forbids bargaining over public employees'
retirement benefits.

The lawsuit says that when the parties to the negotiations reach a
contract settlement, the businesses that lost money "have no place to go
except to this court for relief from the outrageous, purposeful, illegal
and intentionally harmful strike."

Vlada Von Shats, the restaurant's manager and the daughter of its
owners, said the strike caused the Russian Samovar to lose 60 to 80
percent of its daily revenue.

John Nicholas Iannuzzi, lawyer for the restaurant's owners, said they
were asking $25,000 (â??21,060) for each day of the strike. He said he
is also asking for class-action status and $5 million (â??4.21 million)
a day total for all other businesses affected by the strike.

Iannuzzi said none of the defendants had been served with the lawsuit at
the time it was filed. He said at least five other restaurants told him
Thursday that they would join in similar legal action against the
parties to the transit dispute.

Von Shats said the West 52nd Street eatery, which serves Russian and
continental cuisine, opened in 1986 on the site of Jilly's, the
restaurant-bar that was Frank Sinatra's old hangout. She said her
parents, Roman and Larissa Kaplan, who immigrated to the United States
in the 1970s, own the restaurant. They bought out Baryshnikov earlier
this year, she said.

2005-12-22

Copyright 2005
The Associated Press.