Post a commentHow low and dirty is the Union? They are lower than dirt.
The Union obviously does not care about the City, as they have been without a contract for months, have not striked, and now seek to take advantage of the World Series. This will make our city look like a joke. Greed is the name of the TWU.
GREEDY, GREEDY, GREEDY! I didn't get a cost of living raise this year because of the economy. I pay MUCH more than 1-4% towards my health insurance. I have ZERO sympathy for the union members. They are clearly slime balls! Go ahead strike! Just remember, your going to have to face Phillies fans when you get back to work.
Fire them all. I am sure in this economy, there are more than enough willing and able individuals who would jump at the chance for new employment.
Time to treat these creeps like a business. Mayor Nutter: stand like a rock. After the World Series is over and they have disgraced the city, lay off 25% of them. Not only don't give them anything by way of a new contract, you need to demand give-backs---they get far too much for the non-skills required to do their jobs. Stand tall, Mayor. Take back control of Philadelphia from the unions that have set it up to be another Detroit failure.
The Septa worker's union hurts the lower class who rely on the buses to get to their jobs that don't pay very much and don't provide the perks like the bus drivers get all day for sitting on their backsides.
The union is hurting the working class and no one else and these are their neighbors, friends and family who may have no other means of transportation. They will lose pay if they don't get to work but the union workers will still get paid and keep their benefits. Settle for a 2% raise each year and no change in the healthcare payment. Septa can renegotiate in the next contract.
I am ashamed of the Unions in this city, they care nothing for the hard working people who don't get perks like they do. Shamefull!!!!!!
Septa should fire most of the drivers they are rude and drive poorly. Septa should hire private shuttles up and down Market Street to 30th street station for Center City workers.
Remember the recent story stating that Social Security recipients were getting no increase this year? The reason for that was the Cost of Living went DOWN for the first time in recent history. So why is this union demanding a 4% increase? Because of their stellar performance? I think not.
Also, if the TWU performed quality bus maintenance at industry competitive rates, they wouldn't need a contract provision to keep it from being outsourced.
With unemployment over 11% in Phila, these union demands are extortion.
You fools it's SEPTA MANAGEMENT NOT THE POOR DRIVERS. Management pushes for a strike, Management MAKES MONEY DURING A STRIKE THAT THEY SPEND ON THEMSELVES!!
You fools it's SEPTA MANAGEMENT NOT THE POOR DRIVERS. Management pushes for a strike, Management MAKES MONEY DURING A STRIKE THAT THEY SPEND ON THEMSELVES!!
@grampop64 - Asking for 4% each year for the next four years and not contributing to their own health care has nothing to do with SEPTA management. It's union greed. The rest of us subsidize these workers. The rest of us have to pay %25-%50 of our health care. The rest of us would be happy to get any raise this year. The rest of us don't have sweet pension plans. The rest of us who have a job are happy that we do. This union is clueless.
When weak management gives in to union pension demands it is like handing a ticking time bomb to somebody else. Pension concessions become problems 10+ years down the road, long after the current management team is gone. Union pensions devastated the U.S. Auto industry, and were a major factor in past airline bankruptcies. Yet it doesn't stop Local 234 from demanding a 33% increase in the pension funding. I don't think we are the fools.
Everyone out here is making sacrifices (except Congress). Private companies are sacrificing, municipalities are sacrificing, churches are sacrificing.
The unions slobbered all over the "change you can believe in" drivel. Here is your change that you wanted. No pay increase until we get out of the Bush Recession/Obama Depression. That is change from the prosperous Clinton/Bush years.
Just what a "smart" union should do. Wait until the economy is dumping, social security benefits are 0, and then.. STRIKE for MORE MONEY. Theyi should be thankful with what they have...YHS
The outcome of this will mean our already overpriced fares will go up again. And to say it was coincidental with the World Series is bull. Usually they pull this right before school starts. They always seem to wait it out for months and then take advantage by inconveniencing the most people as possible. And they complain when they pay $200something a year for health insurance? I wish I had that. I got no raise last year, probably won't in 2010 and my health insurance just went up again. They are spoiled.
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