This bus strike is amazing to me. We are now in the 5th week of the strike with on and off again negotiations.
An LA Times article today showed the significant impact the strike is having on health care and the poor.
Would a strike such as this been able to go on so long in a place like Orange County? I don't think so. What if the CalTrans freeway maintainence workers went out on strike and it got to the point of all the freeways in OC were closed. How long would that be allowed to go on? Would there be five hundred other outside sources stepping in to bring the situation to a close?
Why is it that when a situation affects the inner city like this, it takes so long to come to resolution?
Why are the public schools here in such disrepair? Would that situation be allowed to continue as long had it been Irvine schools?
And now, as a recent result of the 'flood from nowhere' last Tuesday night, the Governor has declared parts of South LA (Watts, parts of Lynwood, Compton and South Gate) a disaster area.
Makes me think of the old adage, "When it rains it pours".
This is a basic truth of life here in the inner city.
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