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Mayor Menino Sucks, Is Anti-Labor, Talks Funny

Are you kidding me?

Mayor Thomas M. Menino blasted the city’s part-time school bus drivers — who have threatened to strike when school closes today — saying the action will leave disabled kids stranded.

“The bus drivers are making a huge mistake,” Menino told the Herald yesterday. “They’re picking on the most vulnerable of our school children, young kids with special needs like autism and disabilities like that.”

Regardless of the merits of the issue-- oh no a 3% yearly raise that will surely be bargained down to about nothing-- since when is having a job that some people come to rely on a surrender of pretty standard labor rights?

The Herald, sucking as it does, just goes along with Menino's assertion that drivers make $60k/year, nevermind that they're hourly. The contract they want with First Student (of FirstGroup), surprise, keeps them hourly-- to earn that kind of money, they have to work for it. Transporting dozens of kids safely is something worth $24 per hour... right?

But no, they're fixing to sabotaged disabled children! Shameful tactic, Mumbles. Shameful.

Here's my message to the kids of Boston: say no to powerful people stoking anti-labor sentiments. That sort of talk is the reason why your parents don't have vacation days or due process in dismissal from their jobs, anymore.

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