7/1 BART labor union holding the transit infrastructure hostage.
\_ Yesterday's SFGate poll showed that 11% of the readers sympathize
with the workers, 17% with the management, and 72% with the riders.
\_ The millions the Koch Brother's spent are paying off. Workers
now sympathize more with their masters than.
now sympathize more with their masters than their own
self-interest.
\_ The union train operators and station agents get, on average,
$71k/yr base salary and $11k/yr overtime, and contribute $0 to
pension and $92/mo for health insurance.
\_ What do you make?
\_ I make more than that, but my employer is not prohibited
from replacing me with someone who would be willing to get
paid less and get the same job done.
paid less and get the same job done. -- PP
\_ Perhaps you should join a Union then.
\_ Not all unions are as greedy as BART unions. ATU,
which represents AC Transit bus operators whose jobs
are more demanding than BART train operators, wasn't
as greedy.
\_ What do you mean? They make about the same pay.
\_ Driving a bus on city streets is more demanding
than driving an automated train on dedicated
rail tracks.
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Doesn't really seem true to me. |
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