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I'd read a number of things about the TTC strike over the weekend. One of them was a rather empassioned cry to understand the position of the striking workers. That the poster, based on reading some of the vitriol that was posted, could understand their fears of the drivers being assaulted.
It's been sticking in my craw a bit.
I don't live in TO, but I used to - it used to be the only way I could see all of my family - without that, visits with my father would have been much shorter, if for no other reason than the difficulty of a man trying to set up his life again and provide for people who don't live with him being unable to afford to drive all over the place during the 70's.
Yes, there are people who're going to assault the drivers. IMO, they're the ones who were likely to do it before the strike, and will do it again in the future. They're the ones that are ...well...unsocialised morons.
People sounding off in their LJ's (or in the paper, radio, backyards, etc) about the TTC union breaking a promise they'd made not to strand people? Bluntly, totally reasonable.
Does someone sounding off mean they'll actually commit assault? Possible, but in my life, I've run into very few instances of it (yes, maybe I've lived too sheltered a life in your opinion, but I beg to differ. I've had to beg for my life, protect someone else's with my body, survive for 3 weeks on $5 to eat with, etc. I am solidly middle-class now, but I'm not unaware of how hard it is to survive sometimes). People grouse. That's what they do.
I can't agree with the opinion to support the union striking on no notice on the defence of "people will be angry and assault our workers" - if you were concerned about that, stranding the city with zero notice wouldn't be the way it would get handled. That's tossing fuel on a fire and then claiming you didn't know it would burn.
It's been sticking in my craw a bit.
I don't live in TO, but I used to - it used to be the only way I could see all of my family - without that, visits with my father would have been much shorter, if for no other reason than the difficulty of a man trying to set up his life again and provide for people who don't live with him being unable to afford to drive all over the place during the 70's.
Yes, there are people who're going to assault the drivers. IMO, they're the ones who were likely to do it before the strike, and will do it again in the future. They're the ones that are ...well...unsocialised morons.
People sounding off in their LJ's (or in the paper, radio, backyards, etc) about the TTC union breaking a promise they'd made not to strand people? Bluntly, totally reasonable.
Does someone sounding off mean they'll actually commit assault? Possible, but in my life, I've run into very few instances of it (yes, maybe I've lived too sheltered a life in your opinion, but I beg to differ. I've had to beg for my life, protect someone else's with my body, survive for 3 weeks on $5 to eat with, etc. I am solidly middle-class now, but I'm not unaware of how hard it is to survive sometimes). People grouse. That's what they do.
I can't agree with the opinion to support the union striking on no notice on the defence of "people will be angry and assault our workers" - if you were concerned about that, stranding the city with zero notice wouldn't be the way it would get handled. That's tossing fuel on a fire and then claiming you didn't know it would burn.
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