Everyone is getting tired of the lies and inconvenience of this bus strike on the union’s part. It is clearly their fault, but I don’t think they realize we think this. So stop complaining and do something. We need to stand up and say we’re not buying into their lies anymore. Someone get the ball rolling on a protest against them. Please. —Actions Speak Louder Than Words
This article appears in Feb 9-15, 2012.
If you can’t go to work or school, make up some placards reading “A.T.U. 508 – HONK IF YOU ♥ KIDDIE PORN” or “TRANSIT DRIVERS IN SOLIDARITY WITH DOG-FIGHTING RINGS”. Then stand around your local bus stop drinking double-doubles, smoking and picking your ass. You’ll pass for the real thing.
LOL Ivan! You first, I’ll be a long shortly haha 🙂
The strike has not adversely affected me at all but I do find traffic is flowing MUCH better since these people carriers have been idle.
You betcha D-mouthy. I’ll see if the “strike fund” is flush enough to spring for a box of Boston Cremes. >; )
Sweet, I’ll bring the port 🙂
Actually, I noticed last week waiting in line to cross the MacDonald, there was a one-man protest of the transit union in front of the Dartmouth Sportsplex, just down about 100 feet from the picketers and their burn barrel at the Bridge Terminal. He had a sandwich board that read “Who do these transit workers think they are?” On Friday, he had a follower and two signs. The other sign read “Fire them all and rehire”. He seemed to be getting quite a bit of support too.
I didn’t see him this morning…maybe a bit too cold?
I heard the police arrested the anti-union protester… though there is a march on city hall tomorrow at lunch for those opposed to the bus strike!
Nobody misses those gas-guzzler buses. We’re all nice and warm n cozy in our apartments collecting our welfare checks. Enjoy picketing in the sub-zero temperatures 🙂 STRIKE ON IMBECILES!
Did the one-man protest really get arrested? WTF man?
I think he just wasn’t there this morning because it was really damn cold out and, where he’s not unionized, he’s not allowed to “bend” the rules of the fire code and have a burn barrel with an open flame (and no fire extinquisher) on a city sidewalk.
That’s just my guess, though.
it is o.p., what it is, a minor inconvienence.
I enjoy my drive down Barrington Street.