Toronto Transit workers meet with their riders

Toronto's ATU Local 113 held three town hall meetings in April-May 2010 to discuss TTC customer service issues. Comments by the public reveal that most TTC problems are the result of government underfunding and poor management.

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[mapleavenue77]

This is a disingenuous piece of garbage!

Yes, the folks at City Hall need to improve things but so does your union, Greg! You people need to take some responsibility too! What was the whole point of the "Town Halls" if this was the final product?!? You should have saved us all the time.

And I noticed no-one mentioned those ladies at Downsview who were crying because they couldn't get a bus. Remember them???

[Octoberpunk]

This is a very biased video. Just piece of shit.

[Alientank]

@mapleavenue77 Also, I have worked private sector jobs where people screwed around on the job for years but because of their position, they weren't reprimanded of fired. Care to make another broad generalization?

If you think Rob Ford, who thinks we should embrace personal automobiles downtown, increasing smog, and get rid of the street car infrastructure is going to fix anything, you're wrong. The issue in the TTC is not a collector who fell asleep. It's a lack of funding from the government.

[Alientank]

@mapleavenue77 Chronic? Point me to the chronic instances. A guy asleep in his booth. Ok. That happens in the private sector. Or the driver supposedly drunk? They were meds that were not with a warning saying they would affect driving etc. Of course when it was cleared up, the media didn't exactly clarify that to everyone. How about the TTC employees that saved a woman from trying to commit suicide? Not one media outlet covered that.

[mapleavenue77]

@AT In the private sector people who 'abuse their position' or fall asleep on the job, abuse customers, look like bums, etc. get reprimanded or fired. That's a HUGE difference.

I'm not against the right to unionise or against a little compassion with people who occasionally F-U on the job. I'm just saying that when it's a chronic problem, there's usually more than one party to blame. In this case I was calling out Local 113. Hopefully 113 and Mayor Ford will be able to get things up again.

[Alientank]

@mapleavenue77

Pull your head out of your ass. The union works with the money it has. I will say that some people in every union are lazy or don't care. Some abuse it. That's no different from private sector workers who abuse their positions (a lazy boss who doesn't help out those under him etc).

They don't set prices, where money is spent, or how things run. Local 113 operates vehicles, maintains the system, and repairs vehicles with the money it is given. If there's a cash shortage though..