No Contract, No Pulse… No Riders, No Sympathy
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6 responses to “No Contract, No Pulse… No Riders, No Sympathy”
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New York City Will Cut Transit Fares for Low-Income Riders
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Mass transit as mechanism for wealth transfer — the other big reason mass transit is a fiscal disaster zone.
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Snowflakes in June – “The move is in line with the argument that mobility should be viewed as a human right.”
When it comes to the left, what isn’t a basic human right?
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So, we blame unions for threatening the integrity of infrastructure? Management has no role? I realize, of course, that this post has the usual Bacon “non-denial, denial.”
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It is fair to assume management is partly responsible for the inability to reach a contract all these months after the final one expired, but I don’t know the issues or demands – and perhaps the union intended all along to wait for this high visibility deadline to build up some pressure. I can see that. The coverage leaves many questions unanswered – how many drivers are in the union being a big one. It is after all a right to work state and the fact there has been no strike yet may mean the membership is actually a low percentage of the workforce.
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I’m not exactly a union guy but the union seems to be doing the right thing here. Why start the service, get people used to the buses for work, shopping, etc and then call a strike? Like Jim Bacon says … the service isn’t operational now so nobody can be dependent on it. Everybody is better off if there is a contract before the service starts. Real hardball would have been to call a strike 3 months after the service started.
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