Video: Bus Strike Reveals 'Free Market' Fakery

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.labornotes.org/blogs/2013/01/video-bus-strike-reveals-free-market-fakery

January 25, 2013 / Mark Brenner

Last week I was on Fox News to talk about the conflict between New York City and its school bus drivers and aides.

Eight thousand workers took to the picket lines because Mayor Bloomberg and his appointed Education Chancellor Dennis Walcott are abandoning long-standing contract requirements for school bus operators, known as Employee Protection Provisions (EPP). These establish industry-wide seniority, wage, and training standards.

The Bloomberg administration is hiding behind a 2011 court decision that banned similar requirements for bus companies that service early-childhood education programs, citing their “anticompetitive and cost-inflating effects.” Mayor Bloomberg, the billionaire IT and media mogul, is trumpeting unfettered competition as the only way to save the city money.

But his own legal and economic arguments tie him in more twisted knots than a pretzel.

FULL story at link.

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. Hey... Brenner's pretty good on camera. Sign him up. K and R