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From the article: The strike has confused a lot of residents, largely because the dispute isn't over wages. The bus drivers are already among the highest-paid in the country. The dispute is mainly over the transit district's desire to shed what it considers onerous work rules. The district particularly objects to allowing unpaid ``general leave'' of up to a month per year.

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``I wish we were a socialist country, but we're not,'' Hinton said.


Someone should tell this idiot that in a capitalist medium, those drivers would have been fired, replaced, and the crisis would be over.