BUS罢工的事情有什么最新消息？

[青龙桥]

Ottawa Citizen:

The Ottawa bus drivers’ strike enters its 12th day Sunday with no sign of a resolution in sight despite a lengthy meeting Saturday between city and union negotiators.

However, spokesmen for each side tried to be positive given that talks were to resume Sunday.

Ottawa Sun:

http://www.ottawasun.com/News/Columnists/McRae_Earl/2008/12/20/7810886.html

Mike Kouri, 57, OC Transpo bus driver, is furious with the intransigence of union boss Andre Cornellier since the strike began, labelling him "arrogant, unreasonable, a dictator."

"I know for a fact there are a lot of drivers screaming to go back to work," Kouri said. "They'll accept the city's last offer."

"I voted to reject because we were told you always reject the first offer. But it was not a vote to strike, it was a vote to reject. We were led to believe we'd have another chance to vote if it changed. Well, the offer did change in significant ways between Wednesday and a week later when he (Cornellier) called the strike, but he didn't give us a chance to vote on it."

 

[青龙桥]

今天拜读了OTTAWA CITIZEN 上关于BUS罢工的最新报道，颇有一些感触。


“There was never any offer of binding arbitration. It was never offered to us,” Mr. Cornellier said in a Citizen interview.

Mr. O’Brien said the city offered to take the work scheduling issue, the key sticking point in the dispute, off the table and submit it separate arbitration. He said the union rejected the offer.

Attempts to reach the mayor Friday were unsuccessful. However, city spokesman Michael FitzPatrick explained — according to notes he took at the news conference — that at a meeting Sunday between OC Transpo head Alain Mercier and Mr. Cornellier, the union leader was asked if he was interested in submitting the issue to binding arbitration and he told Mr. Mercier that he was not.


咱英语不怎样，不知道was asked if was interested算不算offered，反正两个人里有一个是 LIER。
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Mr. Cornellier said that at the renewed talks, the union agreed to relinquish control of work scheduling to OC Transpo if it would guarantee eight hours of work for the drivers, some of whom end up working six hours. The city refused and Mr. Cornellier said as long as the issue remains unresolved, the walkout will continue.


这个要求好像比较高。据我所知，OTTAWA 不少工作都是基于需求，许多人都是处于 ON CALL 状态。考虑到 OCT 的工作性质，我想不少新司机工作量也不会满。
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Mr. Cornellier also said the union is sticking to its wage demand of 9.25-per-cent increase over three years. The city has offered 7.25 per cent.

“If they want to give us less of a raise, they should give us something else in return. That is bargaining,” he said.


这个工会够狠的，这么个 BARGAINING 法！也不看看现在是什么年月。看来scheduling只是工会的障眼法，他们是什么好处都要要的。
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Mr. O’Brien believes union members will accept the offer if they are given a chance to vote on it.


真是很佩服市长大人的乐观。
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some observers believe the momentum is shifting in the city’s favour.

“The people have gone through the big inconvenience. They’ve learned to walk, cycle, carpool and are now conditioned for the strike. The damage is done and the workers have now lost the advantage.”

“People are just going to get fed up.”

As time goes on, he says, the workers will become more and more restless as they miss paycheque after paycheque.

如果回到12月10日之前，我不赞成市长一定要拿回scheduling：一个80万人口的城市为了每年3M这么折腾实在太不值了。但是既然罢工开始；既然我们已经被折腾近20天了；既然工会不单是为scheduling，还有其它无理要求，我也只好站在市长一边了。让那帮司机接着罢工吧。我只希望这次罢工能有一个结果，就是让那帮司机知道罢工这种把戏不那么好玩：省得他们3年后又罢工。
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原文Link：
Transit union boss disputes city’s claim it offered arbitration

 

[苦逼热狗]

是每星期3M

 

[开喜]

是每星期3M

 

[苦逼热狗]

Transit strike saves $3M a week: OC Transpo
加上租车的那些费用，油费，其实不止$3M

 

[青龙桥]

是每星期3M

每年3M是CITY说收回SCHEDULING能省下的数目。

 

[苦逼热狗]

有报道称OCTrasnpo司机的平均工资是$55000
$55000/year / 8hr/day / (365-104)day/year ~= $26.34/hr

$26.34 /hr * 2300个union成员 * 40小时/每周 = $2,423,280
光工资就有2.4M了
其他燃油费，维修费，水电费等费用，说3M其实是说少了

 

[苦逼热狗]

每年3M是CITY说收回SCHEDULING能省下的数目。

每星期开出的工资也有2.4M，外带其他费用3M算少了

 

[青龙桥]

有报道称OCTrasnpo司机的平均工资是$55000
$55000/year / 8hr/day / (365-104)day/year ~= $26.34/hr

$26.34 /hr * 2300个union成员 * 40小时/每周 = $2,423,280
光工资就有2.4M了
其他燃油费，维修费，水电费等费用，说3M其实是说少了

还有乘客自己掏的钱。
去年 CITY 给 OC Transpo 的 Funding 是 152M，大约每星期 3M。

参见：
Welcome to OC Transpo
Contact Us -> Reports & Stats -> Funding

 

[青龙桥]

所以你写$3M每年是错误的

我不赞成市长一定要拿回scheduling：一个80万人口的城市为了每年3M这么折腾实在太不值了。

我的意思是 CITY 拿回 scheduling 每年能省 3M。

这是 CITY 网上说的，精确的数目是3.4M。
http://www.octranspo.com/mapscheds/Contingency/FAQ_ATU_Offer.htm#Q11

当然可能我没说太清楚。

 

[bpzm]

以后让他们每年罢工一周以换取scheduling，罢工限定在夏季

 

[ccc]

有报道称OCTrasnpo司机的平均工资是$55000
$55000/year / 8hr/day / (365-104)day/year ~= $26.34/hr

$26.34 /hr * 2300个union成员 * 40小时/每周 = $2,423,280
光工资就有2.4M了
其他燃油费，维修费，水电费等费用，说3M其实是说少了

用这么多人，是因为他们只工作６小时／天（工作６小时，按８小时计算工资）。如果他们实实在在工作８小时，可以裁员30%。

不过，有个特殊原因。他们每天工作两班，每班三小时。两班间隔数小时。

 

[mimi1982]

嘻。。。据说参加罢工的人每个小时还有七块钱拿呢！

 

[青龙桥]

嘻。。。据说参加罢工的人每个小时还有七块钱拿呢！

每天七块钱吧？我听说是头两个星期没钱；第三个星期150；以后每星期50。

 

[青龙桥]

OTTAWA SUN：

ottawasun.com - Ottawa and Region - City pins strike hopes on Rona Ambrose


Labour Minister Rona Ambrose is expected to respond as early as this week to the city’s request to force a vote among striking transit union members on the latest city offer.

The federal minister and her cabinet colleague, Transport Minister John Baird, are currently evaluating the situation and what the government’s response may be to bring this strike to a conclusion, said Baird’s press secretary Chris Day.

“The interest of the public and the need to get buses back on the streets is our primary concerns,” said Day.

The city has asked for a supervised vote by Amalgamated Transit Union Local 279 members, who have been waging a 20-day-old strike that has crippled the nation’s capital and shows no signs of ending.