Strike blindsides commuters
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 8:57 am
Well I am glad they are standing up for themselves, there is only so much bs people could take. I also supported the BC teachers when they did the same thing and defied the courts and stayed out.A massive wave of public outrage and anger greeted Toronto Transit Commission drivers and other employees as they ended an illegal wildcat strike yesterday afternoon, returning to work just in time to deal with the chaos of the homebound commute.
It took two separate orders from the Ontario Labour Relations Board to force the TTC's unionized employees, whose illegal strike blindsided hundreds of thousands of Toronto commuters when it began yesterday morning, to get the drivers and ticket takers back to work.
The first order, issued around 7:30 a.m., was simply ignored by the Toronto local of the Amalgamated Transit Union, with union stewards telling strikers "Bob Kinnear is our president, and Bob Kinnear will direct us."
The final end came at 3 p.m., when Mayor David Miller announced the end of the strike at a City Hall news conference.
Commuter Odila Pepe, 55, was livid at the disruption.
"I wish them the worst," she said after being unable to get to her afternoon job downtown. "I think they should have been fired for what they did Â- every last one of them."
Sometimes you have to do what is "right" regardless of what the courts or governments say.
Working people (union and non union) have been used, abused and taken advantage of by employers and management of certain companies for far too long and "public disobedience" is sometimes a necessary evil.
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