CTA Transit Union Deserves No One's Sympathy (Video)
The CTA's union workers demand better hours and a raise to go with their health insurance and pensions. Are they living in a different economy than the rest of us?
UPDATE (1/21/10): A CTA union board member complained today in my comment thread that past union-member pay raises have been put instead towards health insurance and pensions--so they deserve raises now. I'm sure many underemployed or unemployed Chicagoans would love to have health insurance or a 401K plan. It's as if the CTA union has been living in a different economy than the rest of us for the past 18 months. The comment needs to be read to be believed... ___
Today in the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) transit union complained that 1,000 union workers will lose their jobs on February 7th. The rest of us 1.5 million CTA 'L' and bus riders know that as the day almost 20% of Chicago transit service will be eliminated--because the transit union refused to share the pain of a bad economy with the rest of us. In this video, I explain why CTA riders owe no sympathy to the soon-to-be-sacked union workers who needlessly caused commutes to get a lot worse for an entire city of transit riders.
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