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