Being a bus taking person myself i feel the impact, I'm grounded home,however;the transit unions position is unfair people complain about what public officials make but a transit worker makes 24 dollars an hour witch is a rate of pay that not many receive in this province(and people think municipal goverment is over paid!).Ask most people and you would find that almost anyone would say 24 dollars a hour and pick your own shifts would be a dream...and it is.It's a transit workers dream that is funded by tax payers who don't even take the bus and the underemployed and low income people who mostly use the transit service(to me that's not fair!).

There demands are crazy, a union like that would bankrupt a private business(as we've seen with the paper mills), and local residents should complain.Residents should complain not because of unfairness to the bus drivers but because the union wants to make them pay.The worst of it is they actually encourage people to write the mayor.The reason why this is worse is because essentially there asking people to write without informing them that their overtime they fight for and pay increases(not so much a issue) come from the very same people writing in for them.I'm sure nobody will be impressed by the cuts to other services, tax increases or bus fare hikes that will follow to compensate for the unions demands.It also goes to show how much the union cares about the public that rely on them.