Actually i have, on a very limited basis I was required to when stationed in Iceland, but that is neither here nor there. You simply can not justify paying 160k a yr for one bus driver. The laws of supply and demand do not dictate it.....the only thing that dictated it was the "hiring freeze" from "union contracts."
There is a difference between explaining why 1 bus driver made an anomalistic sum during a specific period of time and arguing that said sum should be his base pay.
Hiring freeze was dictated by the city budget- they intentionally opted to force Metro to use overtime instead of new workers as a means of saving money. This was reversed when it became obvious that "supply" of buses far exceeded the "demand" from riders and overtime was actually turning out to be the more expensive option.
So , once again, this is hardly an example of the broken union system.
That was why I used that site and poll. You state it like a fact that overwhelmingly people are against Walker. That is simply not the case at all. Are the unions more vocal and organized? Sure. Doesn't mean that the majority of citizens agree with them.
I was responding to the poster who claimed that outside of the pro-union protesters, there was no public union support. It is a simple fact that if anti-union sentiment was really that all encompassing, then the counterprotests would have been larger.
