What exactly is wrong with the contract the SEPTA workers walked away from as reported by every city media outlet? It lays out guarantees to the workers that are better than any organized municipal worker (one may go so far as to say any worker period) in the state. If you can answer that question, you may well be a master of labor relations insight.

What you would not be is informed by the TWU because they have not responded to a _single_ _fucking_ _inquiry_ _from_ _the_ _media_. Since they walked, they’ve said not a thing. All they’ve done is pre-emptively painted the media adscape with their pale effort to equate themselves to the civil rights movement. Since then, they haven’t said shit to anyone. Why is that?

You never told us in the other comment thread how you get to work.

But on the other hand, it is really discomforting that a group of people, who at the lowest level are making at least 50% above minimum wage, with great job security, extras like health care (which, I may point out–unlike 99.99999% of the active workforce, they are not even paying into) who suffer little recourse for doing their jobs at an absolute minimum capacity, with horrible attitudes are complaining that they are not being compensated fairly. All that is asked of them is that they sit on a bus and not kill anyone. I would say they deal with drunks and crazies and urine and feces and vomit, but they don’t. The entire system is totally oblivious to the customer experience that they are providing because the lack of competition (which is something they themselves forced upon the consumer) forces the public to take it or go fuck themselves. There is a pervasive and disgusting disregard for order and civility, and there is no accountability or recourse, and they just want more. Fuck them, buy a bike.

i do not work for a union, i work for the upenn empire and guess what, there are way more surly assholes here than there are operating septa.