Off Topic: SEPTA Strike, Work Week 1

The union representing the City Division of the local transit agency, SEPTA, went on strike at midnight, Monday, October 21/Tuesday, November 1, leaving me with a six-mile walk to get to work each morning and again on the return trip. I usually try to get 10,000 steps in every day (weather and schedule permitting), but the strike has me over that before I even get to the office each morning.

Both sides in the negotiations have been feeding at the public trough for so long that they have forgotten that most of the people who provide the money that pays for their salaries and benefits through fares paid and tax-payer funded subsidies make quite a bit less in total compensation for equivalent levels of education and experience, and that those very people are the ones hurt most by their grandstanding and inability to compromise. Drive enough people away from using public transit, and there will not be any money to argue over.