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  BART Strike: Who do you stand with? (search mode)
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Question: Well?
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Strikers (D)
 
#2
Strikers (R)
 
#3
Strikers (I/O)
 
#4
BART ('D')
 
#5
BART (R)
 
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BART (I/O)
 
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Total Voters: 60

Author Topic: BART Strike: Who do you stand with?  (Read 3269 times)
All Along The Watchtower
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« on: October 22, 2013, 06:25:55 PM »

BART wants to give the workers a 12% pay raise over the next 4 years. The workers want more. I stand with BART! Hopefully cooler heads will prevail soon or I hope Governor Brown forces them back to work. And the legislature should draw up legislation preventing such strikes in the future.
Half the story hasn't been told:

After not having a pay raise for the last 5, yes.
Which is why there are not two sides/stories.

You're really upset that public employees didn't get pay increases during the Great Recession? If you're going to increase spending on labor in a recession, it should be to hire more people not increase wages for a few.

Considering that many rich people increased their incomes during the Great Recession...
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