A friend of the blog emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do I have this\u00a0right? The pandemic has reduced commuter travel as employees and students work from home. The buses all say “essential travel only” and are not allowing the crowds they once had. Honestly, they probably don’t even have the crowds- fewer people are using the bus right now. I haven’t been on a bus lately, but I still get the texts about reduced service. Several times a day, buses aren’t running for all sorts of reasons.<\/p>
Yet, despite all of this, Metro Transit employees were set to get a 2.5% raise and a $1500 bonus? The hospital where I work cancelled raises, eliminated CEU money, and cancelled the Holiday parties and meals because elective surgeries were cancelled for 2 months. Yet, these transit employees think their bonus and 2.5% raise are “crappy offers” and rejected the offer, voting for a strike<\/a>?????<\/p>
\u00a0I rarely use such language, but seriously, WTF is wrong with these people? I mean, look around- they ought to be happy with being employed, let alone a raise this year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
If Metro Transit struck now, who would know?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Other than the people the DFL and their public employee union enablers want to keep miserable anyway?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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