CFRA Callers

Man oh man! These union goons are done!

Solidarity, work together, band together. Let's shut these unions and these drivers down! Yeah! This "municipal terrorism" as one caller has dubbed it.

The "arrogance, the smugness" and the "Jimmy Hoff approach to negotiations". I'm not sure who Jimmy Hoff was but if he was half as bad as ATU 279 President Andre Cornellier, then man oh man, was he a bad dude.

Cornellier, was "rude, evasive, arrogant" and worse. He was like a 5-year old kid having a temper tantrum, closing his ears and shouting down the interviewer with the same one-liner, something about the city contracting new drivers.

RIDICULOUS! As one caller mentioned, if this is what the negotiators and the city had to deal with trying to broker a deal, no wonder there was a strike. You can't talk to these union people!

Point 2. As the caller also noted, very eloquently, in large cities like Ottawa, public transit must be declared an ESSENTIAL SERVICE. 350,000 people take the bus in Ottawa each and every day! The union and OCTranspo, consisting of 2,200 people, has taken the city hostage with this baloney! Our hands are tied! You can't negotiate with these people! This Cornellier fellow, he said he only has "to answer to his membership." Well Mr. Cornellier, I agree with caller Joanne, that you have to answer to us! The city taxpayer. We pay your wages you fool!

To add insult to injury, these goons are blocking busy, downtown intersections near City Hall with their picket lines! I hope they're stoned and paintballed.

Moreover, they have not given their consent to not interfere with yellow buses trying to transport kids to school! Somehow kids going to school would infringe upon their protest!

Fire the lot of them! Give the boot to the union! Throw these fools out. If they stage a sit-in, arrest them.

I don't even want these fools ordered back to work! We don't want them! That's it. Finito, caput. They're out. Down with ATU 279 and these striking drivers.

As to the callers on CFRA. You guys are amazing! You speak eloquently (nothing like Cornellier), you put your points forth in a fair and just manner, and you make GOOD points. Let's work together. Let's band together. Let's solidify the masses. Talk to your neighbours. Help each other get to work. Let's do this. We don't need these OC Transpo fools.

6.5 million dollars in overtime pay between 800 OC Transpo employees...ridiculous.