Shit I’d complain too. I depended heavily on the LTC last year. I took the 10 wonder everyday when I could have walked to class in about 10 minutes. Sorry for those of you who chose to live so far.

Rage on gentlemen.

By the way, we are getting money back from the LTC for the bus passes. But the usc is keeping it.. so careful where you point your finger.

Fuck the LTC

Does a unionized worker doing an easy, unskilled job deserve more money than a non-unionized worker doing a similarly easy, unskilled job?

That said, is there anything that we can do besides bitch to fix the situation?

What I have a problem with is how the school’s (Western and Fanshawe) have decided to handle the situation. As I’ve read through these rants, UWO parking prices are incredibly high, which makes the situation even more difficult for students who are generally struggling financially this time of year anyway. At Fanshawe, they’re not giving students a break either, not to mention they have limited parking space available for students in the first place.

As a student, it’s easy to focus primarily on the impact this strike is having on students. Personally, I’m fortunate enough to have a car and am able to get the places I need to go. But I’ve been finding it’s hard to justify spending the money it takes to park on campus unless I NEED to be in class. I agree with the earlier post that it’s disgusting that the school’s are profiting off of this unfortunate event in the city. I have enough issues with Fanshawe College, this just further adds to my list.

I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s been forced to quit work, or what they do for a living. I applaud the students for doing a shuttle service. I do, but I wish there was something as convenient as that for the rest of us who don’t go to school but do go to work.

If they think they’re not getting enough respect from people before hand, they’re not going to help the attitudes of people when they do get back to work. They’re only making it worse on themselves because people are going to abuse them worse this time around. And they deserve it. People need buses, and they can’t get around without them. Besides, all you need is a drivers license and a Grade 12 education to be a bus driver. That’s more than what most students make after finishing college/university.

They are often late, unapologetic about it and if you call up LTC to get an explanation as to why you’re running 10min behind and your bus driver still stopped for a smoke and a coffee all you ever get is “we’re in a union”. Or more then a year ago, when a co-workers wife was 7months pregnant and kicked off half way through the loop to walk 20minutes home because said bus driver didn’t want to work over time.

LTC is $2.75 a ride, the same price as Toronto and yet we get none of the same quality of service. The LTC is a joke.

It’s not the strike per say that people are angry over, it’s the way the opportunistic union whores went about crippling a city during an extremely sensitive time of year. Not just for students, but for families who rely on the bus to get them to work. Work, that helps them pay for their family, as well as Christmas which is coming up fast.

It’s also the fact that these union whores are asking for equality benefits/compensation to say police officers and firefighters. They do not offer the same service. They’re just greedy bastards. It’s hard for people who make minimum wage or slightly higher to sympathize with their plight, especially since they’re making life hell for a lot of people.

So I agree, fuck the LTC.

http://communications.uwo.ca/transitstrike/faq.html#studentpassrefund

The LTC employees ought to be happy they have jobs at all in our current economic climate, as there are many people out there who do not. Of course they have rights and do not deserve to be berated and abused by their riders. Of course they should be allowed to express their desires for a better working environment. However, withdrawing a vital public service is not going to win much sympathy from the public, and doing so in a recession is a guaranteed way to piss a whole lot of people off.

The level of abuse they are going to take from the public is only going to increase as people grow wary of what they perceive to be a whole lot of bitching and moaning by a bunch of fat, lazy, uneducated, and ungrateful workers. The LTC union is trying to launch a PR campaign to get the public on their side, but it’s just not going to happen.

Anyway, you are quite welcome to go ahead and spout off the socialist BS your 2nd year Political Science professor fed you, and masturbate to your pictures of Jack Layton. In the meantime, if people want to express anger over the strike, they’re quite entitled to do so as well.

fuckers just want more money for themselves

Does anyone know how much the transit workers currently make?

Couldn’t give a fuck about having my bus pass reimbursed, and free parking only benefits students with cars. Get me a fucking way to class.