Strike
I’m glad work isn’t far away and in a pinch, I really don’t have to take the subway. But there are a lot of frustrated people today, left high and dry by the SEPTA strike. What angers me the most is the city’s working class is what will get hit the hardest, people who don’t live in the plush suburbs who can take the commuter rail to work. And these workers are holding the city hostage over a health care plan that they have to start paying for. The rest of us have been paying for that for a long time.
This quote’s lovely:
“They did offer the raise with one hand and then withdrew it with the other hand,” Bedard said. “Under their health care proposal, if you or your spouse or kid ended up having to go to the hospital for five days, you’d spend your whole raise.”
Ummm, yeah. Going to the hosiptal is expensive for everyone. Employers are supposed to give you raises to cover your *possible* hospital costs as well? What the hell kind of a raise are they proposing? 40%? I haven’t had a raise in years, I pay health care premiums even if I never go to the doctor, and I work in health care. Maybe I should go on strike.
Posted on October 31st, 2005 under News • 
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