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What happened with the protest?
Who are these people?? 17.2% unemployed and under-employed workers (U6 Report for Oct.) in this country & they want a raise?? PA needs to change its employment laws to a "right to work" state. I am certain that there are unemployed family men & women that would accept the current wages & benefits that SEPTA people find so burdensome. Geeeze!
The protesters couldn't get to the get together because the trains and buses weren't running.
wouldve been there if the publicity was great but just found out now. I would of brought my "fire the workers" sign
I had three job interviews scheduled for this coming week, which I'll most likely end up missing because of these thieves. The irony is that I live a 10-minute walk from a train that doesn't even have a ticket office so I can't even take the train at all because they won't accept cash onboard. Way to step into the 20th century, Septic. At this point, I'm okay with them staying out forever. We should really have a city-wide carpool service, even when a strike isn't happening. People can chip in for gas, which would probably cost less than a monthly trailpass, and never have to deal with a snarling Septic driver again, and at the same time, send a good F-U message to Hamburger Willie and his thugs.
Let'em stay out. Sooner or later the uneducated idiots making outrageous salaries will give in. If not, let them try to find another job. SEPTA need to close. PERIOD.
What I am curious about is why are they asking for a raise when there are so many freaken people who are unemployed?
septa has lost my ridership forever. i'm never taking them again!
septa has lost my ridership forever. i'm never taking them again!
I just dug up this little gem about Galen Baker, a Septa employee who was caught trying to illegally obtain Viagra for sale on the street. THERE'S your Septa worker! Insurance fraud and drug dealing on the job - no wonder they're fighting about getting daily doses of Viagra pills - it's to fund their second jobs! Guess they need the extra income since they have it so bad working for Septa. http://www.attorneygeneral.gov/press.aspx?id=1351
Septa workers are smelly, rude and swear at you when you ask to buy a token from a booth. Oh and they earn 52k a year with FULL benefits. How fair is that?
I'm truly beginning to believe that Fat Willie Brown is enjoying this notoriety. I think everyone should contact the Septa union, 215-972-4140, wait for the automated system to say, "Fat Willy Brown", and bombard his voice mailbox with your opinions and thoughts. Let him know if you, like me, can see right through his act, and know that most of the union does not support him. How come the union is not getting paid to strike? Paying almost 20 a week in union dues, you would think there would be enough union dues to cover these affected employees during the strike. He is a greedy, gluttonous man who is pocketing any profits the union does indeed get, keeping his union members broke while he is getting richer and richer. Willie Brown signifies his place as the "big corporation" of this union. He is the greedy company stealing from its employees (the union). I hope for my dear friends who are stuck in this union situation, the ones who want to go back to work, that they speak out, and get this man out of the control position. I don't understand why it can't be put to vote if Fat Willie Brown says he has his union's support. He won't put it up for vote, because he knows that it would be highly approved, and his pockets wouldn't be getting lined so heavily. It is clearly terrible leadership, and I wonder when our government is going to put its foot down and say enough is enough. You are letting this greedy man destroy the economy we have left in our hometown city of Phila, "The City of Brotherly Love." Ha!
It is unconscionable that the new sticking point is that the union members do not want to not pay if taxes go up because of Obamacare. That's completely ridiculous. You elected him, you have to deal with his tax increases. They want a free ride. TWU can have a free ride when they give all of us a free ride, but that would require them to actually go to work like real Americans.
I'm not sure who has the authority, but all of the workers should be fired and union broken. If the new set of workers want to unionize, then it needs to be under a different set of rules. We would be better off waiting for the people to be trained rather than pay these demands during this difficult economic period.
You wonder why companies don't want to move here or why the people that live here are so cynical. Actions like this are an embarrassment. We need leadership to put an aggressive end to this thing.
Fire them all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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