Transit strike

[seanchai]

Well, it looks like the transit workers are going on strike.

This doesn't really affect me, since classes are pretty much over, but it does mean I'll have to mail my American Lit. paper in by post. Our teacher has email; I don't know why she won't take papers that way. It's going to be a serious bitch making sure she gets the thing before grades

Comments

[lostcatholic]

This reminds me of teh General Strike in Britian after WWI.
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It was a misrable failure.

[seanchai]

I wish this one would fail- it's causing massive problems for the city. Even aside from the fact that it's making it incredibly hard and expensive for most people to get around in freezing cold weather, it's also causing all sorts of problems for local businesses. And while the big chain stores can hold out, there are a lot of smaller places that normally make their money for the year during the holidays, that might well be driven out.

The saddest thing is that pretty much literally everyone's against the TWU, even the national Transit Worker's Union pretty much told them to stop being bastards and go back to work.