[onewhippedpuppy]

What I don't understand is the entire "companies running rampant" thing. I worked construction for 6 years before going back to college, and I was never part of any union. I always worked for about the going rate for my skills and experience, and when I felt a company wasn't treating me fairly I would find another job. Simple. There will always be competition for skilled, quality employees, no matter what the field, which helps keep wages high. You don't like your job, find another, but this union walkout stuff is BS. Of course, we all know why the transit workers don't look elsewhere, their wages are so inflated they know that they would be lucky to make half as much elsewhere.