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To: LindyBill who wrote (366125)	5/26/2010 5:23:26 AM
From: Elroy	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793917

Fire all the union bus drivers and hire a new set of drivers at 60% of the current workers pay. Impossible. Our Honolulu Bus drivers are all teamsters. Gotta admit I don't know enough about how unions work to know why this is impossible. If union bus drivers earn too much, fire the union, entirely, and hire new bus drivers at 60% of the fired worker's wage. The training and transition process would be ugly, but why is in impossible? Who's going to defend the right of a bunch of bus drivers to make $100k when lots of unemployed folks will do the same job for $60k?