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The CTA said through a spokeswoman that, while sympathetic to the frustrations of transit workers, the agency "will not tolerate any job action." The CTA considers tranist operators "essential service" workers, who are prohibited by state law from striking. Chicago Federation of Labor President Dennis Gannon said that while they weren't talking about an outright strike, an unspecified "job action" could take place. "If there's not something that comes together . . . what [alternative] do we have left?" he told the Tribune. Characteristically, Blagojevich seemed optimistic. "If all the leaders truly are committed to reaching an agreement," Blagojevich spokeswoman Abby Ottenhoff told the Sun-Times, then a deal can be made by Thanksgiving. If by "deal" Blagojevich means more temper tantrums, then yes, it's doable by Thanksgiving.
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They should just walk out. Fuck 'em. Show the leaders what the city looks like sans mass transit.
I bet Chicago gets thinner.
CTA Worker is an oxymoron.
I think it would be great if they would all strike for one day then Springfield and IL would find out how important Public Transportation is to Chicago and IL.
Can you imagine the whole City would shut down and then the CEO'S of ComEd, Peoples Energy etc would be calling for transit funding.
There aren't enough cabs to get us all to work.
I am so sick and tired of Daley and his games with the tax payers money in Chicago. He controls everthing from the City, the Board of Education, the CTA, the Office of Professional Standards -- you name it; he controls it. Do we really need buses running at 3:00 AM at 124th and Michigan? Do CTA employees really need to be given lifetime health care benefits after working just 10 years? And who is paying for all these labor agreements, pay raises and other non-sense that all the city workers get - us in the burbs.
And now they want to give him the casinos to run in the city. Why, so he can control the dollars and all the patronage jobs that go along with it. Huberman can run the casinos for him. You know if Daley gets his hands on casinos sure enough there will some sort of a crisis and he will go running to the state.
If you ask me, someone needs to reign the city in and teach the Mayor how to live within his means.
I hate this and I'm sick of it. The leperchaun king Mayor Mumbles himself has to go and ruin everything in this city by controlling everything. It's disgusting. Perhaps in his model cities program he should look to New York, where I lived once. It's no big deal to me, but the working people in this city who can't get to work because he's sitting there holding the purse. What a midget dwarf jerk.
From what Ive seen of the work done at the CTA we might be better off if they strike. ghost employees and do nothing managment and consultants. The cta is a huge mess and throwing more money at the problem is not the answer. Some jobs need to be eliminated (the cleaning crews appear to be doing nothing anyway). Im sure the money spent on health care is huge try and find a diver under 250lbs. Reform and accountability is needed not just more tax money.
Yeah, the CTA is a mess and who do we have to thank but Daley? This whole thing is worse than the post office and that's his fault. Why don't they have these problems in New York? I lived in New York and they don't have these problems. I'm sick of it. These people are so corrupt and I am sick of it.
"This whole thing is worse than the post office and that's his fault."
Huh? You are blaming Daley for post office problems? You understand that the post office is regulated by the federal government? Cities have nothing to do with it.