We're playing with semantics. Bourgeois has different shadings of meaning (look it up). It is an imprecise word. I'm not going to use it anymore in this discussion.

Fact is this: You have left the working class and the infirm on the curb, with essentially zero warning, for the simple fact that you want more money.

Period.

In doing this, you are costing very many people much money and hardship.

And I see no sign that you give a damn.

You have all sorts of slick, noble-sounding ways to blame others for the busses not running, but I don't buy a lick of it.

You and you alone are responsible for stranding the passengers.

Not the greedy corporations, not the government, not any of that.

You are members of a higher economic class using a lower class as a pawn for monetary gain.

You're holding them hostage.

In effect, you are saying, "We won't give these people rides until you pay us ransom."

Call the money what you will - insurance, raises, whatever - it comes out the same in the end: "The workin' class be damned until we get more dough."

Don't even try to blame this on the corporations or greedy governments or whatever smoke-and-mirrors philosophical yakety-yak diversion you come up with. I ain't buyin' it.

This is all about your greed.

And don't come off with the high-sounding horseshit about everyone has a right to healthcare. That's all a crock. Somebody has to pay for healthcare, and YOU are one of them. Nothing is free.

On a personal level, you are trying to feather your nest on MY back. As it is, I am giving rides daily to work to two friends. I am missing hours from my work to do this. I am losing wages. I am paying for more gas. And you and the UTU are directly responsible. You are taking money from my pocket.

I'm calling you on the carpet.

Now go home and suck your thumb and read your Karl Marx while your bank account drains from this foolish strike you started.