Posted on 10/08/2013 7:16:48 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Tens of thousands of Boston schoolchildren were left stranded this morning by what the school district called an “illegal work action” by hundreds of bus drivers who refused to drive their routes today, forcing T bus drivers and even Boston police to jump in and ferry kids to school.“I hope this is all worth it,” Roxbury mom Corvette Rankins — who ferried her 8-year-old to the Blackstone Elementary School — said in response to the drivers. “Were your children stranded or did you take them on strike with you?”Only 30 of 650 buses are on the road today, the district said.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Every day they miss in public school is actually an advantage.
LOL! What are the demands? Shorter hours, shorter routes, less unruly kids. Maybe they were all taking off to sign up for un-affordable care benefits. On the bright side of uaca, it appears that NH and NV have been granted a waiver because implementing the thing would “disrupt the marketplace and cause harm to individuals”. Per sebilius memo to NH and NV. HUH? Would this be basis for other states to sue the feds?
More ComDem Insanity
Hey! These are government employees with the backing of Obongo. You should have planned for it. Besides, bus driving skills are akin to that of a plumber who makes what a doctor makes so it only makes sense that they’d strike for higher wages. After all, they are a Socialist State.
Corvette???
Didn’t President Obama just say that you cannot go on strike? That you OWE it to your employer to show up and do a good job at the work you are paid to do?
The subjects of Massachussetts have spent the last fifty years empowering their corrupt, single party system and the public union leeches that feed off it. Behold the fruits of your labor.
I really cannot bear to read any articles coming out of the PRM. So tell me, in the article or comments, how many people blamed the Republican House of Representatives for shutting down the government buses?
Corvette?
I hear her momma’s name is Thunderbird.
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