| There have been quite a few very high-profile transit | | | | in fuel costs in a weeks time to actually pay the |
| strikes in the last couple of years. We had a big one | | | | strikers the difference in the money they want. But |
| here in NYC and there was another large one in Los | | | | unfortunately the "people" get the shaft.It seems to me |
| Angeles at the RTD. Marta also had a strike and | | | | this system is messed up when government agencies |
| Atlanta was out for over a week. When these strikes | | | | are rewarded when they fail to stay on budget and fail |
| occur it throws a loop in the economy and cheats | | | | to pay proper wages and it is always the taxpayer |
| people out of getting to work and earning a living. The | | | | who takes it in the shorts. The Unions also know this |
| taxpayers take it in the shorts and the lost tax | | | | and use this leverage to get what they want. The only |
| revenues to many government agencies are also | | | | victim is the user of the transit system, and if they are |
| hurt.If air-traffic controllers, transit workers or truck | | | | considered expendable and victims, instead of |
| drivers strike the flows of transportation are severely | | | | passengers, why have the system in the first place? |
| hurt and everyone ends up losing? Or do they? What | | | | Debate me on this someone, I would like an honest |
| people often do not realize is when strikes occur in | | | | answer to this dilemma not the general bull. Consider all |
| public transportation the Agency saves enough money | | | | this in 2006. |