What Is It That ATU Wants?
I apologize if this has been covered earlier, but I've had a hard time trying to figure out exactly what it is that ATU wants.
I haven't seen anywhere that ATU has taken issue with the sharing of health benefits cost which will have the biggest impact on employees' income.
The only contentious issue I've read is that ATU wants a two-year contract, and maybe a change in some work rules.
Would someone be kind enough to clarify this for me -- and maybe others, too?
On a related topic, I hope everyone realizes that the vast majority of BART workers have accepted management's proposal, have voted to accept the new contract, and just want to get on with business. The 400 ATU workers who instigated this "strike" do not speak for the other workers who want to do their jobs and be able to provide for their families.
i posted this no clue i was
i posted this
no clue i was working on the 'who are they'
station agents and train operators.
station agents are responsible for about 10,000 people passing through their station each day.
so 70,000 a week.
train operators get those 70,000 people(the size of a world series game) per train operator, because its 350,000 people a day use bart.
that is the ATU they do a great job, i think if they voted 'no' bart should have came back with another offer. not just vote impose.
i think bart can still come back with an offer. heck they will have to anyway.
its really the number of people they deal with everyday and their professional manner of doing that wins the +++'s
what they want i dont know though.
Of the 10,000 people who pass
Of the 10,000 people who pass through a station while a SA is on duty, how many do they actually help?
Based on what I see, I would say they help maybe 100 people during the course of a regular shift, which isn't that different than someone who works at any busy retail location.
You can only help those that
You can only help those that actually need the help. Ignoramus. It don't matter if a 100,000 people pass thru a station. You can only assist those that need the help, wether it's 10 or 100.
Based on what you see? In your all of your what; 20 minutes in a station?
You run your ticket, and you head to the platform. You probably don't look at an agent for more than 5 minutes total in a given day. Based on what you see? lol
Over the years that I have
Over the years that I have been using BART I have spent hundreds of hours in BART stations.
It's not difficult to extrapolate what a normal day for a SA is based on a sampling of that size.
I only bring up the 10,000 number because it was brought up by the poster I was responding to, in order to clarify for others that the SA's do not actually interact with that many people on any given shift.
But until you spend a day in
But until you spend a day in a station agent's booth, what you "extrapolate" is all speculation.
But I forgot. You know it all. lol
Nope, I don't know it all.
Nope, I don't know it all. But I've read lots of accounts about it here.
You don't have to have a job at McDonald's to have an idea of what it would be like to have a job at McDonald's. You can get a very good idea of what the job is like just by watching the employees at work.
I don't see why the job of an SA would be any different. Observing the employees at work give, from everything I have read here, a fairly accurate picture of what the job is like.