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rendell, offer brown a turkey and he will cave in.
I am really getting a sense that the union isn't sure WHAT it wants, and is just taking a shotgun approach by asking for everything. You listen to Willie Brown's comments and he sounds like it is all about the pension funding. Then the union runs a radio ad campaign saying they are striking over the outsourcing of maintenance jobs. Others say the basic wage increases aren't enough. Or is it health care contributions? Equipment picking rights? .....everybody seems to focus on something different, so they are just asking for everything. It is like when you ask a child for a Christmas list and the list they put together just keeps growing and growing.
wec, they are on strike because the union leadership wants the rank and file to think they are getting their money's worth out of their union dues. The contract they end up signing will be very close to what they've already been offerred.
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It is ridiculous. I have to go to the Dr for my medication and I can't get there. I am on SSI and don't have a car or a backup plan. In other words there is no one to drive me there. wec4104 is right. They don't know what the heck they are striking for.
So while the union members are going without pay, Fat Willie is paying top dollar of the members' hard earned money to run a futile radio ad campaign? Again, I know the membership is far too stupid and uneducated to get it, but this bloated con man has totally sold them out.
The union doesn't fully support its leader and the bottom line is that they had a great offer- which should be off the table now. They didn't deserve what they were offered- they should have taken it while they had the chance. They will get no sympathy from the THOUSANDS of us who lost raises, are paying much more than 1% towards health insurance, lost ANY contribution into our retirement and have NO pension. They can all stay home unpaid for all I care...
High School graduate Willie Brown needs to talk to his 5,500 morons to explain why they ain't gettin paid. Replace them all.
This just in, polls show that 99% of Philadelphia residents support replacing the 5,500 strikers. Of the people polled, 99% had a higher level of education thatn the current 5,500 strikers. The 1% who support the strikers are the strikers.
Why the hell are they not talking 3 days in. They need to be working this out asap.
Honestly, this isn't about education. In ColonelAnus's world, only those with expensive pieces of paper deserve well paying jobs. That said, I do not support the strike. What is lacking at the table is common sense, not education.
Does anyone know if there are union scum picketing in Center City and where? I would like to drop by and say hello.
Five hundred people were on that fire laden train yesterday and all escaped injury. Under any other circumstances the transit workers would have been hailed as hereos for getting one off safely. But because a different union is on strike everyone trash talk them. It just is not right.
.... I've been here for days..reading, following the articles and I still cant understand how you turn down a raise, pension increase and only 1% of your medical needing to be paid.....
And WHY is Willie Brown acting like a dictator? Shouldnt the workers have some say in what is turned down or not?
This is such as joke... The Regional Rail is the only profitable element to Septa anyway...
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