unions are all run by the mob.

those people wanting decent wage, fuck em. Shoulda gone to a high class uni like I am.

yeah dude what you apparently DO NOT GET is that not only are the workers losing money by going on strike but the union itself is losing money too.

They don't hold a meeting and then go, "I think we should strike again this week because I want another $0.25 and those little shit head students are getting on my nerves". its a group effort between alot of people that wouldn't bother doing it unless they really needed to because they are losing money in the process.

but this is from MY union experience I don't know much about the teacher unions but I imagine they aren't that different


EDit: wait is this over BUSES are you actually bitching because some broke ass bus drivers are striking don't tell me that is what this topic is about.


please do not tell me that this topic is full of people bitching because they can't ride a public bus to school. AHAHA wow I thought it was teachers so you actually couldn't go to school. But, its just the drivers? man, why is this topic even open?

THEY'RE OLD AND DUMB I COULD DRIVE A BUS

fuck anyone that does and got money for it because a bunch of people believe a bus ride is a right

rosa parks..

heh.. gotcha, racist.

do you not understand that SOME PEOPLE DO IT FOR A LIVING?

so you know even though that might not be YOUR personal choice or your friends those people still have a right to make a decent living? oh wait no they don't because that might inconvenience you for a few days...

did you know starbucks will fire you if they catch wind you are unionizing, it was a big deal about a month back, the IWW did a pretty big protest.

yup! and wal-mart has shut down at least 1 store, and 1 auto garage in Canada because they unionized.

That's almost $60,000 a year for a job which is really supposed to be a ~22-30~ yr old person's job (at least in the states, public transit drivers are either really old assholes or mid-twenties college students or like band members who are supplementing).

Please tell me where 30+ year olds are supposed to work, then? The factory work that is increasingly being outsourced or done by machines? The office work that requires a university education (that a lot of people can't afford!) or really, really good connections? You seem to have this impression that people can just find high paying jobs growing on trees, or that they otherwise deserve to starve in the streets or something!  Again, workers deserve whatever raises they are willing to FIGHT for. The idea that some jobs are undeserving of decent wages because they're don't require education or "aren't hard" is classist bullshit!

dude I don't know where the hell you're coming from either have you ever driven a buss or a big ass truck? Those fuckers are pretty tough to learn how to drive and driving is alot of responsibility, especially in a city as big as Toronto or any city that requires them as public transit.

you're classist because there's no education requirement and you manage to occasionally drive a car, you assume driving a bus every day regularly and dealing with the shit your average bus driver does is easy.

classism doesn't mean you have to shit on the poor, it means you can say they deserve to be poor and aren't.

in addition your average bus driver can kill somebody by following the law even. the other day it was in the news that a car swerved in front of a bus, it stopped, and the guy in the back rearended and died. sorry I think the threat of possible lawsuits on your person when some old guy keels over with a heart attack and no one notices is a little bit worse than "someone pooped on the floor".

especially when a lot of people shit on buses all the time.

why are you even bringing this up here?

gw gets hilariously conservative at the most random shit unless its WEED and even that is a conservative opinion LESS GOVMENT you aren't so stupid you missed that and are trying to do a HEH DID YOU CONSIDER thing and ignoring I know these forums to an embarassing degree and it's funny as shit how if it hadn't been for me and a few other people who probably heard from the same sources I did you would all be drinking the Ron Paul koolaid.

i'm sorry but i don't think there's any justification for operators or station collectors to earn $100,000 a year

here is the justification: they do something. most CEOs do not and take home millions and bilk investors and have perks like you wouldn't believe.

do you really believe bus drivers should be paid upwards of $29.33/hr??

yep. I believe everyone who does a job that I wouldn't do should get to live comfortably.

ps you can keep quoting something but maybe linking the article might help as you keep posting it and not saying where it's from.

btw, we're paying almost $3 for a bus ticket.

FUCK WE'RE ALL DEAD! ALMOST 3 DOLLARS!

grey poupon mustard is four dollars. you are complaining about less than a jar of mustard.

hardworking folks can't make good money, only CEOs and investors can! that's how things work pidge. strikes are cool and trendy unless they effect me, then they are outrageous!!