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BART workers strike after talks break down
If BART is doing well and has a surplus it’s only fair that the workers not have to take a pay cut. I bet the top management hasn’t taken a cut.
Maybe management has not taken a cut, but perhaps they have not had raises either. This issue needs more reporting. Regardless, if the reported “surplus” needs to be invested in infrastructure then that may take precedence in order for the BART to outlast the length of time until the leaders of the union(s) retire, which may be an unreported concern.
Contributions to health care premiums and pensions? That is what the losers in the union are striking over? In the private sector, where employees actually perform actual work, contributing to one’s own health care premium and 401K plan is standard procedure. What these union thugs need is to be rounded up and put to work in the private sector so they can see how good they have it. Of course, that will never happen. So, institute PLAN B. Liquidate their union jobs and hire in non-union workers willing to work for half, doing a better job, and happy to have a job. Of course that will never happen either. What will happen is PLAN C. The socialist government will intervene, give the union thugs a big fat raise and eliminate all contributions while expecting even less work out of them.
If it where not for unions there would be no pensions, health insurance, safety rules, labor laws, etc. If you think unions are bad, wait and see what happens to the working men and women in this country when there gone. Keep living in your fantasy world of employers are all good and loving and want what’s best for there workers and you too will be wishing you had a union.
They should consider themselves lucky to have jobs in today’s economy. They do not care that they are making others pay for what they want, and maybe even costing others their jobs if they cannot get to work. Evidently unions think no one should make money but them. If they have taken a pay cut, then it should be restored so they can pay for their pensions and health care like the rest of us…
Good luck to them, but I have to say that every strike or other form of industrial action that leads to service outages shakes confidence in rail and forces people onto the roads.
Unions and management need to get together and figure out ways to ensure that when workers have grievances, they have genuinely effective methods of recourse available to them that may or may not punish their employers, but does not cause hardship to riders.
Doing otherwise is a great way to guse your own industry.
Earth to unions: This is 2013, not 1953. Erode public support for BART and you’re eliminating your own jobs. Good luck!