Cut bus driver pay: IEDM
The reliably right-wing Institut économique de Montréal suggests cutting bus drivers’ pay to help tackle the transit deficit.
The IEDM must enjoy strikes.
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Nicholas 20:56 on 2023-11-06 Permalink
Definitely the best way to deal with the bus driver shortage is to cut salaries during an incredibly strong labour market. Please give me money to run a think tank.
Ian 22:25 on 2023-11-06 Permalink
I bet if you just killed them all you would save a TON of money. Pay me now, please.
It really is kind of insane that they can put this nonsense out and expect anyone to take it seriously.
DisgruntledGoat 02:39 on 2023-11-07 Permalink
Right wing think tank suggests people behave in an unrealistic way so that study can be cited by right wing politicians
jeather 08:36 on 2023-11-07 Permalink
Well, if they paid less, there would be a lot fewer bus drivers, and the buses would be driven less, so there’d be a lot less maintenance, and less gas used.
steph 12:53 on 2023-11-07 Permalink
These guys are bananas. Why cut salaries when we should just be upgrading to driverless buses. The pilot project on St-Hubert was a huge success. The invoice is in the mail, thank you very much.
Kate 13:15 on 2023-11-07 Permalink
steph, was the St-Hubert bus a success? I have friends on St‑André, where the bus circulated back, and that wasn’t their impression.
steph 14:38 on 2023-11-07 Permalink
I’m pretty sure a think tank would know better than your friends. /s
Uatu 18:24 on 2023-11-07 Permalink
Fire the think tank staff and replace them with ChatGPT.
Orr 10:29 on 2023-11-08 Permalink
Considering bus drivers have to work 2 morning and afternoon partial shifts between 6 am and 6 pm every dayfor rush hours, missing family meals every day, that deserves a premium. But 100K? That seems like a lot of premium.
I hate the MEI tho, that’s not debatable. Anti-tax, anti-regulation, anti-citizen, anti-democracy, pro-poverty voice of the ultrawealthy.