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Re:Bart employee salaries CSV by spikels on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @04:00AM (#5983079)
The percentage of members of the two BART unions that voted for the strike is also public. It was not close.

   SEIU 98.5%
   ATU  99.9%
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BART-workers-vote-to-a...
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Re:Bart employee salaries CSV by flyinRyan on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @04:57AM (#5983262)
Sounds like they have legit grievances then.
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Re:Bart employee salaries CSV by derleth on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @05:14AM (#5983316)
> The percentage of members of the two BART unions that voted for the strike is also public. It was not close.

Those numbers (upwards of 90%) look like the numbers won by dictators in rigged elections. Who monitors the union voting process?

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Re:Bart employee salaries CSV by casiotone on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @07:24AM (#5983770)
Union ballots are well regulated and usually even put incredibly unfair restrictions on the unions. They achieve this result in a very simple way:

Their members want it.

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Re:Bart employee salaries CSV by derleth on Wednesday July 03, 2013 @02:15PM (#5986450)
> Union ballots are well regulated

Says who? The unions? What outside observers monitor the ballots?

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