While I doubt the strike will go on that long even a two week strike will pose a major problem:
Tens of thousands of York Region Transit and Viva riders endured an unusually frustrating morning commute Monday on the first day of a strike by 560 York transit workers that threatens to be a long one.
“If a two-week strike doesn’t send a message maybe it’ll have to be two months,” said Bob Kinnear, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113, which represents 220 Viva workers employed by Veolia Transport.
That group of drivers, mechanics and maintenance workers stood on the picket lines for two weeks in 2008.
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Everyone deserves a raise, so, they should get it, then, raises for teachers and Hydro employees and city workers...why not, its not like you and I are paying for it, these raises will be paid for by people who are not even born yet, so, I say, give em what they want. Ontario is 240 billion in debt and, will add 15 billion to that debt this year probably 15 billion to the debt next year, and, this is where it gets fun, in two years the good people of Ontario will be paying more money a year in interest payments to simply serice what we've borrowed the last 10 years then it does on post secondary education..now thats cool!! And...no one cares!!!
Not Dalton, not little Timmy, and, certainly not Andrea. Graveyard meet whistle.
This is not good. I have teenagers who rely on Viva and YRT to go to York U. , and High School.
Public transportation is meant to make citizens more productive. This has the opposite effect.
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