Digg this. SEPTA union calls a strike at 3 AM this morning. I just found out by going online. I had thought the Gov. Rendell came in to save the day. OH that was yesterday!! Gee wiz...now I am gonna be stuck at 8th and Market this morning and well, got to get a ride downtown to get home for our birthday dinner.
How the hell do the transit workers expect folks to support them, when they pull off a sneek job like that. This photo is one of many WORKING folks who like me are standed with little time to plan. Hey, the Phillies are still alive... Here is the Article I woke up to at 5am.
Posted on Tue, Nov. 3, 2009
SEPTA workers on strike
By Robert Moran
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
SEPTA's largest union went on strike early this morning - crippling a transit system that averages more than 928,000 trips every weekday in the city.
The strike came after hours of negotiation Monday that ended when, according to Willie Brown, president of Transport Workers Union Local 234, both sides agreed that they had gone as far as they could go. The talks broke down shortly before midnight.
The strike began at 3 a.m. Tuesday. At that hour, all bus, subway, and trolley service in the city - as well as the Frontier Division buses in Bucks, Montgomery, and Chester counties - was stilled, not long before the busy morning commute.
Gov. Rendell called the decision to strike before dawn "irresponsible," and said the union action would cause chaos with transit riders who would not know what is happening until after they wake up.
"This is an outrageous action," said Mayor Michael Nutter, who joined Rendell last night to address reporters in the lobby of the Park Hyatt at the Bellevue, where negotiations had been under way since 10 a.m. Monday
How the hell do the transit workers expect folks to support them, when they pull off a sneek job like that. This photo is one of many WORKING folks who like me are standed with little time to plan. Hey, the Phillies are still alive... Here is the Article I woke up to at 5am.
Posted on Tue, Nov. 3, 2009
SEPTA workers on strike
By Robert Moran
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
SEPTA's largest union went on strike early this morning - crippling a transit system that averages more than 928,000 trips every weekday in the city.
The strike came after hours of negotiation Monday that ended when, according to Willie Brown, president of Transport Workers Union Local 234, both sides agreed that they had gone as far as they could go. The talks broke down shortly before midnight.
The strike began at 3 a.m. Tuesday. At that hour, all bus, subway, and trolley service in the city - as well as the Frontier Division buses in Bucks, Montgomery, and Chester counties - was stilled, not long before the busy morning commute.
Gov. Rendell called the decision to strike before dawn "irresponsible," and said the union action would cause chaos with transit riders who would not know what is happening until after they wake up.
"This is an outrageous action," said Mayor Michael Nutter, who joined Rendell last night to address reporters in the lobby of the Park Hyatt at the Bellevue, where negotiations had been under way since 10 a.m. Monday
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Ah, SEPTA!
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