You bet it Ain't over...just heard that the Met Council has not sent over the complete contract to the ATU1005 leaders yet. So what are they holding back for?
Wasn't it great to hear Peter Bell's cloyingly excessive praise of Pawlenty's role in resolving the strike? Maybe he helped, maybe he didn't...but the brown-nosing was totally unnecessary. Doesn't it make perfect sense to give only $100,000 (total) to inadequately fund T-GAP when Bell says he plans to spend $500,000 on an ad campaign to lure riders back to the buses... I bet those Media Rare guys (who lost the lottery business) were the first to call. How about giving that money to the people who suffered from this strike like the riders an drives who are probably in debt and will be struggling to recover for months? And What do we do? Go back to the reduced barely adequate service that they cut back last fall and working conditions that force drivers to work split shifts of too many hours? What WERE the costs of this strike...both monetary and social? Will anybody make the effort to add it all up now...or will the brewmeisters like Strom just say..."See, there was not much of an impact on anyone...there were very few problems...we don't need to do anything about a problem that does not exist except keep cutting the funding for it because this strike proves that it was not needed anyway..." When will we take the needed steps to improve our transit system (no NOT the Pod, NOT the "Fast Lanes") What are we going to do to reduce or eliminate the conditions that forced the drivers to strike in the first place? We may think that once the strike is settled, that it's over... but that's what we thought in 1995. The failure to do anything other than cough up studies that nobody looks at or acts upon just means we've laid the groundwork for future strikes and a transit system that's running on 3 wheels. Madeline Douglass Kingfield REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
