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Posted by Catherine Lucey @ 8:22 AM
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Hopefully Rendell brings an interpreter. Those workers are the dumbest people in the city and aren't likely to understand plain English.
We can wait them out, if pension and the repairs are the only problem, then let them stay on strike. Willie Brown should be voted out of office in 10 months, he is a horrible negotiator. If the companies that make repairs don't do a great job, that is wonderful, the sleeping night mechanics can wake up and do their jobs.
Move the pensions to 401ks and let them decide how to invest just like the rest of us, some of us lost no money or very little because we did not rely on someone else doing our investing. This should be the last offer before a State takeover and firing of all current employees. If a strike goes on for 30 or more days that is enough time to put a new plan in place and hire all new people, preferably no unions.
They are at will employees at this point, no contract, they are like everyone else. The State can takeover Septa or Septa can declare bankruptcy and restructure. Why do you need a union in this day and age, OSHA is for work rules and EEOC is for wage/discrimination disputes, you are paying union dues for what.
As long as they are paid with State and Federal funds, they can be let go.
Fire the Septa workers. It would be politically difficult, but the public would be better off.
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