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Originally Posted by tjf
its all John Streets fault...
they need to bring on the audit
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An audit won't do anything though. It will show what everyone already knows, SEPTA is inefficient.
The auditors will come back and say X amount of dollars is being spent on employees and their health and pension packages. The union will come back and say that they are being unfair and then will go on the offensive saying the city is trying to screw the little guy to gain a "profit"
When bus routes are shown to be poorly planned and when the size of the bus is not appropriate for the route it operates on comes back as problems again the union will strike. They will claim that the city is planning to abandon riders, avoiding the fact that they, the union, is the root cause of the problems.
Unions fight to at least maintain the status quo and if possible increase the power they wield. Power is gained through employee masses who are loyal. To keep them loyal they need to give them increasingly attractive compensation packages, we as the tax payers are the ones who get screwed. However, we allow this activity to continue by supporting picketing employees and not doing research to see that they are much better off than many and in the case of SEPTA acheive this by taxing the rest of us more.