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Tensions escalate in Metro strike
Register-Pajaronian ^ | 10/25/2005 | Laura Norton

Posted on 10/25/2005 9:37:33 PM PDT by CAWats

As the Santa Cruz Metro Transit strike enters its fifth week today, confrontations between striking bus drivers and their supporters and the Metro board they are in negotiations with have heightened, officials on both sides reported Monday afternoon. The comments came in the wake of a noise disturbance Sunday night at the home of Metro board member Dene Bustichi.

Police were called to Bustichi’s home about 9:12 p.m. to respond to a group of 20-50 University of California Santa Cruz students demanding to speak with Bustichi about the strike, according to Scotts Valley police reports.

“They wanted to talk about the bus strike and I refused, since I was standing there in my boxers at the front door,” Bustichi said of the incident. “I can understand going after me at my place of business or at the City Council building. But going after my family in the middle of the night is beyond belief.”

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: metro; strike

1 posted on 10/25/2005 9:37:35 PM PDT by CAWats
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To: CAWats

Isn't that what students are being taught in our universities, that it is they who rule the world?


2 posted on 10/25/2005 11:23:30 PM PDT by taxesareforever (Government is running amuck)
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