I love how people say take the car. Yet, every time rush hour comes, I see the massive gridlock in the downtown core on major streets and drivers honking, cutting in, yelling at other drivers. Some of you are ignoring the police officer who is directing traffic. Yeah sure, take the car.
Good for them. The CEO's salary went up $90K in 2023 from his 2022 salary and it's up $200K since he took over in 2020 and he's basically done nothing since.
The bizarre world of CEO pay multiples has no limit higher than the entire earnings & market cap going to one person. It's completely insane. It would be like giving average employees a bottle of water, while the CEO gets enough water to fill the Pacific Ocean.
@@g.m3399 A similar program was in place long before he was the CEO then the Ontario PC party cancelled it then chose to reinstate it again. That was not his doing, please educate yourself on how things actually work.
it doesnt matter what ceos make, ttc employees are very well paid with high benefits packages! This is nothing but GREED. The idiot judge who decided transit is not an essential service is biased and incompetent! Of course its an essential service, why wasn't this appealed?
Why essential public infrastructure like the transit system is even unionized is beyond me... I guess taxi and rideshare drivers are licking their chops, though.
Extracts from the latest available TTC Financial Statements - Revenue from passenger services $ 496 million - Operating and capital subsidies $3,023 million - Total budgeted expenses $2,895 million - Wages, salaries and benefits $1,534 million Looking at these numbers for every $ 1.00 the average commuter spends on TTC fares, TTC workers get $3.09 and taxpayers subsidize the TTC with $6.09 Now ask yourself if these TTC workers should be allowed to go on strike - for what appears to be a vital infrastructure service that is largely subsidized by municipal, provincial and federal tax dollars.
I took the TTC yesterday for the first time in 16 years. I boarded two buses, and there were arguments between passengers and staff on both of them, not to mention the bad smelling people. I will never take the TTC again, as long as I live. How about making the system better as opposed to always asking for money.
TTC is pathetic. Maximum pay for minimum work. The majority who use the TTC earn far less than those working for TTC. At a time when the cost of living is skyrocketing the striking is unacceptable. The lowly paid, seniors and many others will be affected very badly.
I know many people that work in the TTC garages fixing busses. In the private sector, you have 2 hours to complete an annual safety inspection. TTC allots 20 hours for the same inspection. Workers that work the overnight shift easily sleep in busses for 3-4 hours daily. The shop foreman must be “invited” on to the shop floor or else it is considered a grievance and the union gets involved. I am shocked that no one has done an audit to compare how many hours it takes TTC employees to do a job opposed to the private sector. Any business operating like this would have been shut down instantaneously. The taxpayers are on the hook and the lazy workers are still not satisfied!
@@luminyam6145 Rob Ford privatizing garbage collection in the west half of Toronto has worked out wonderfully, actually. Even in the east where it's still public, they know if they ever try to cripple the city with a strike again that they'll get privatized too.
Average TTC Bus Driver yearly pay in Canada is approximately $83,810, which is 136% above the national average. The Transit Operator role is a permanent full-time position. No part-time hours are provided.
I don't see why every few years they don't have an independent arbiter review their pay situation. Much better than strikes. It's an essential service.
This is an essential service. They shouldn't be able to strike. There are people that have medical needs who HAVE to get around. They might not know anyone with a car or have money for an uber! People are going to have to check into hospitals just so they can get their daily medical needs taken care of. What if all the firefighters, police and medical workers went on strike? This isn't so different.
It’s a social service for those who can’t afford a car. For people to work go to school and shop. It’s why the services are provided. Maybe private businesses should help pay the fare or costs of heir employees taking buses to work
You know who doesn't care if TTC workers go on strike? My personal automobile everyone says I should give up and ride public transit instead of using. I love independent personal mobility 🥰🥰🥰
There goes our summer!Imprisoned within your personal spaces unless you own a car!Nobody can afford an uber to get from the subburbs to downtown.Unless you use the go to Union.😮
@@deepbrit How long are they gonna keep playing the pandemic heroes card? It's pathetic, you got to keep your jobs when many of us lost ours, while also earning a nice premium. You're expecting the poorest people in the city to suffer to indulge your entitlement and greed! There is NO argument to be made in favour of the striking workers, you already have it a lot better than many of us!
Have you ever seen hairdressers on strike??? or any beauty professionals?? we are underpaid . We have no union!! and will keep working hard.!!! Because we’re strong!!!
Go Unionize then. You can go brag about being an underpaid and under appreciated employee where people care. Imagine flexing because your boss won’t pay you decent enough wages.
You don't earn s**t though, and you aren't crying about making more or causing a change other than "working harder" yet you want others to earn your respect? Stay down, dog 🐶
It’s the CEO who has to make service better. Employees work as they are asked . Lack of funding and outsourcing is the main reason management and a making billions while tax payers are suffering
@@deepbrit no, that's not true. It's up to the workers themselves to hold their duties to high regard, do the job that they are being paid to do, and treat the public properly.
Offer to do the job then! There's a number of reasons why TTC employees make a bunch. Theres also reasons no one want the jobs lol. It's dangerous just to start. Dealing with the public is unpredictable frustrating, annoying and you are not protected.
@@moddaboy They are not demanding more pay. Billions of dollar in raise for the corrupt non performing politicians, hefty taxes that never reduced environmental climate change, billions of bailout package to money printing corporations is way more than these working employees. Actually they are not paid more, greedy corporates pay less to other working class employees
There’s so many criminally underpaid jobs. I find it personally hard to empathize with a group of people who are making on average 136% more than the nation average.
It's cause they're unionized workers. Instead of complaining how low other workers are getting paid, why not focus on how high the few at the top are making? If you keep workers wages low, WE ALL STAY LOW. If you focus on knocking down the top, WE ALL RISE!
Everyone owns a car and drives to work right?WRONG!Then why are thousands taking a bus.Schools out so it makes it ok.What about daycare Oh right,everybody drives😮
Since when did Canadian news casters, and media.. need lip injection representation!? Sad for Canadian news. Bad trend. Not polite. And not able to take seriously. I’m 36 years old. And this is sad
Unions drive up inflation, discourage hiring and new investment, disrupt services and lives, threaten social programs we spent a lifetime paying for and foster a culture of greed and entitlement! Unions do not fight for fairness and justice anymore, that hasn't been the case in over a century, they're simply abused to indulge greed! We need to get rid of unions and replace them with stronger labour laws!
Remember when the Ontario NDP wanted to make scab workers illegal. 😂 I would love to see new comers take over all public businesses for quarters on the dollar.
LOL I guess you want more ppl from outside the country coming in? I wonder when you'll cry and beg your boss for a measly raise just to continue living your life in the city. I hope an immigrant paid half or even a quarter your wage replaces you
This is NOT fair!!!!! Its GREED!!!! They're extremely well paid. What about the single mother who can't feed her kids because she can't get to work? Not everyone has an alternative. This will drive up fair for the rest of us and the TTC is already the 3rd highest fair in the world. The judge was WRONG, of course it's an essential service. This needs to be appealed, the TTC should NEVER be allowed to strike! They're abusing this right to indulge their greed, like all unions. If you don't like your job, quit, but good luck finding such a sweet deal anywhere else!
I thought they where supposed to this like 2-3 weeks ago lol . They get pension good benefits they don’t need to strike they are ungrateful plus all those ttc bus driver could make up to 120k with over time . Sometimes I feel people are ungrateful with what they have . Ttc is supposed to serve the public as much as I like unions , I don’t think they should be encouraging people to walk of the job as many people rely on the ttc . People first serve the public and resolve all your outstanding issues in closed doors . All ceos get raises bonuses etc it’s how it works . Plus all the employees get raises as per their CBA at ttc . Serving the public is more important then your employment contract .
You don't realize how critically incorrect you are. "CEOs make more because they do etc etc and workers make according to CBA" - that's what ppl who accept the wage inequality say. There is a LARGER gap between what the TOP TTC worker made vs what their CEO made, than your average workers vs the TOP TTC worker. It's night and day. Yet ppl focus on knocking down worker pay to match their own low wage? Don't ppl realize that if all we do is knock each other down, then we ALL stay down? We gotta start aiming our sights on those at the top and why they're sitting pretty not concerned about us at the bottom crawling and begging for their scraps
People don’t see the assaults and harassment these employee go through daily while NDP ruled tyrant bureaucrats are busy giving millions of raise to CEO despite poor service and outsourced low quality services
Those guys needed to switch jobs, 90% are arrogant, doesn't care about riders, no need less affordable drivers on road, every second day drivers miss behave, after all these why they want more, just quit job.
Those who blaming transit operators don’t know what their job is Transit keeps 12 hour spread and the work can be only 5 to 6 hours but transit hold operators for 12 hours (break is unpaid here take note) So wind short transit operators make around 3000-4000 a month only Lot of pay goes to taxes
Glad I moved out of Toronto; absolutely useless and over paid
I love how people say take the car. Yet, every time rush hour comes, I see the massive gridlock in the downtown core on major streets and drivers honking, cutting in, yelling at other drivers. Some of you are ignoring the police officer who is directing traffic. Yeah sure, take the car.
Gladly will thanks
Woke left NDP made sure that people couldn’t drive to work and become addicted on drugs
Wait... who says take the car?
@@dsquared7059 Taking the car through Toronto is a suicide
@@deepbritdriving in Toronto itself is just really annoying most of the time when I visited the city
Split CEO bonus between those who make less than 60k as its new minimum to survive in toronto !
Or you could charge riders and children their full fare price around $5-$7 a ride.
The TTC is already so disrupted, the idea of it getting even worse is impressive
Politicians give themselves 8% raises and then tell workers that they don’t have anything for them. Strike F everyone,
Good for them. The CEO's salary went up $90K in 2023 from his 2022 salary and it's up $200K since he took over in 2020 and he's basically done nothing since.
They are all overpaid union leeches.
The bizarre world of CEO pay multiples has no limit higher than the entire earnings & market cap going to one person. It's completely insane. It would be like giving average employees a bottle of water, while the CEO gets enough water to fill the Pacific Ocean.
I don’t have to pay two fairs taking Mississauga miway and ttc. . He’s done a great job
@@g.m3399 A similar program was in place long before he was the CEO then the Ontario PC party cancelled it then chose to reinstate it again. That was not his doing, please educate yourself on how things actually work.
it doesnt matter what ceos make, ttc employees are very well paid with high benefits packages! This is nothing but GREED. The idiot judge who decided transit is not an essential service is biased and incompetent! Of course its an essential service, why wasn't this appealed?
Subway is so delayed that it feels llike the employees strike every 15 mins
I would say 20 minute delay
They can’t afford proper repair or equipment. They have not been properly invested in by all levels of government on all sides.
How is it so hard to balance audio????? Theres NO audio on 1 side!!!
This is going on about a year
guess I'm not the only one who thought my earbuds broke
Public transit is always a problem .
Great ! In the 70's I got free rides and always got a seat, never had to stand, or have anyone shouting krwap on the loudspeakers
50 years ago I’d another lifetime ago. Nothing is the same.
Now you get to smell curry armpits
Work from home makes the strike less disruptive for some people
fr more remote days is the silver lining
Why essential public infrastructure like the transit system is even unionized is beyond me... I guess taxi and rideshare drivers are licking their chops, though.
Police are a worse Union. Unions exist to help people achieve a living wage
Give them what they want!
Extracts from the latest available TTC Financial Statements
- Revenue from passenger services $ 496 million
- Operating and capital subsidies $3,023 million
- Total budgeted expenses $2,895 million
- Wages, salaries and benefits $1,534 million
Looking at these numbers for every $ 1.00 the average commuter spends on TTC fares, TTC workers get $3.09 and taxpayers subsidize the TTC with $6.09
Now ask yourself if these TTC workers should be allowed to go on strike - for what appears to be a vital infrastructure service that is largely subsidized by municipal, provincial and federal tax dollars.
Solidarity forever, stand strong!
*Citizens strike*
_Don't take the TTC for a period of time._
See how the TTC feels.
Let's make the TTC feel how we feel, Broke.
I took the TTC yesterday for the first time in 16 years. I boarded two buses, and there were arguments between passengers and staff on both of them, not to mention the bad smelling people. I will never take the TTC again, as long as I live. How about making the system better as opposed to always asking for money.
Well thanks for riding once it must be like that all the time. Try again in 16 years
TTC is pathetic. Maximum pay for minimum work. The majority who use the TTC earn far less than those working for TTC. At a time when the cost of living is skyrocketing the striking is unacceptable. The lowly paid, seniors and many others will be affected very badly.
False
@@Tinyweiner2.0 very true
Its going to be an absolute disaster
@@Tinyweiner2.0Bus Drivers make between 60k and 80k a year…
transit tickets are 4 dollars for an adult in calgary, absolute insanity that we are paying over 1.50
Canadian’s from coast to coast need more money to try and keep up with taxation and government caused inflation.
Fire them.
I know many people that work in the TTC garages fixing busses. In the private sector, you have 2 hours to complete an annual safety inspection.
TTC allots 20 hours for the same inspection.
Workers that work the overnight shift easily sleep in busses for 3-4 hours daily.
The shop foreman must be “invited” on to the shop floor or else it is considered a grievance and the union gets involved.
I am shocked that no one has done an audit to compare how many hours it takes TTC employees to do a job opposed to the private sector.
Any business operating like this would have been shut down instantaneously. The taxpayers are on the hook and the lazy workers are still not satisfied!
You just described the entire government 🤣🤣
Yep, that's the answer, privatize everything. My goodness that has worked out so well /s🙄
@@luminyam6145 Rob Ford privatizing garbage collection in the west half of Toronto has worked out wonderfully, actually. Even in the east where it's still public, they know if they ever try to cripple the city with a strike again that they'll get privatized too.
lol Rob Ford ❄️ ❄️❄️❄️
@@luminyam6145 its a bad idea, but less bad than public corruption...
Average TTC Bus Driver yearly pay in Canada is approximately $83,810, which is 136% above the national average.
The Transit Operator role is a permanent full-time position. No part-time hours are provided.
I don't see why every few years they don't have an independent arbiter review their pay situation. Much better than strikes. It's an essential service.
Things would get better so I’m not that could happen
Union workers asking for more wages means riders paying higher fares. Sounds great!
This is an essential service. They shouldn't be able to strike. There are people that have medical needs who HAVE to get around. They might not know anyone with a car or have money for an uber! People are going to have to check into hospitals just so they can get their daily medical needs taken care of. What if all the firefighters, police and medical workers went on strike? This isn't so different.
Everyone has the right to strike
It isn’t a essential service, in Ontario paramedics aren’t even an essential service,
@@rickv1 They definitely should be!
Why am I paying for this?
It’s a social service for those who can’t afford a car. For people to work go to school and shop. It’s why the services are provided. Maybe private businesses should help pay the fare or costs of heir employees taking buses to work
Strikes are in Fashion!!!😂
Why strike? They are slow every time, don't show up on time, and stop immediately. We wasted a lot of time cuz of TTC
TTC should be an essential service!!! So, no strikes for them.
Our TTC is the worse one compare with other big cities.
I thought TTC was made an essential service long ago and not allowed to walk off the job. What is going on?
That was reversed
the right to strike is for everyone
They did, but recently, I think about 1 year ago, they struck that down.
Right to strike against the Just In created inflation, carbon taxes, housing crisis is natural
@@bookisomg no it's for unions
You know who doesn't care if TTC workers go on strike? My personal automobile everyone says I should give up and ride public transit instead of using. I love independent personal mobility 🥰🥰🥰
Being selfish is awesome.
General Strike time
Will this impact Go transit?
Of it will get busier
yes GO will be more busy/crowded
WFH if u can!!
here's olivia chow's chance to do something good for the first time since taking over for that other slacker ... otherwise, have fun !
By this point driving is a right not a privilege!
Where is Ford in all of this???. This will paralyzed the entire city .
Ford created this
Yes! Free rides!!❤😊
if news has been honest, all did take mandatory vacation to keep jobs, .. all local government, all public sector, traveling out of country/Returning.
Everyone in every city got raises and more vacations except the unions.
Strike, and you go straight to jail. No trial. Undercook pork straight to jail. Overcook chicken, jail. Overcook, undercook, jail.
Whoa 🤯
There goes our summer!Imprisoned within your personal spaces unless you own a car!Nobody can afford an uber to get from the subburbs to downtown.Unless you use the go to Union.😮
👍🏼Awesome.
Bought a car 2 years ago.
Use transit only when necessary.
Once a year?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Cant believe this the audio quality we get from a major MEDIA organization.
My 8 year old aspiring youtuber nephew can do better than this.
Strike to happen 99.9% in my view. Time to get serious with offers over the weekend.
Nobody will notice a difference anyway, service couldn't be worse than it is now. TTC = Take The Car
Many people will notice a difference. Come down from your ivory tower, you out of touch snob.
Let’s see who cry first
Would you rather no service?
@@gardeniat3478 People think paying less to employee who ran Toronto during covid is acceptable
@@deepbrit How long are they gonna keep playing the pandemic heroes card? It's pathetic, you got to keep your jobs when many of us lost ours, while also earning a nice premium. You're expecting the poorest people in the city to suffer to indulge your entitlement and greed! There is NO argument to be made in favour of the striking workers, you already have it a lot better than many of us!
Have you ever seen hairdressers on strike??? or any beauty professionals?? we are underpaid . We have no union!! and will keep working hard.!!! Because we’re strong!!!
Go Unionize then. You can go brag about being an underpaid and under appreciated employee where people care.
Imagine flexing because your boss won’t pay you decent enough wages.
Lol
TTL workers for Conservatives good people and against islamofascists Liberals/NDP
What???
these keep-striking people no longer earn my respect
You don't earn s**t though, and you aren't crying about making more or causing a change other than "working harder" yet you want others to earn your respect? Stay down, dog 🐶
Fantastic trudeau
Just In
🤦♂️
These drivers are making 100k+/yr. Do they really deserve more money for this level of service and skill? These guys make more than nurses.
It’s the CEO who has to make service better. Employees work as they are asked . Lack of funding and outsourcing is the main reason management and a making billions while tax payers are suffering
@@deepbrit no, that's not true. It's up to the workers themselves to hold their duties to high regard, do the job that they are being paid to do, and treat the public properly.
@@deepbrit Whatever you say to justify them demanding more pay. We all know that's what it comes down to mostly.
Offer to do the job then! There's a number of reasons why TTC employees make a bunch. Theres also reasons no one want the jobs lol. It's dangerous just to start. Dealing with the public is unpredictable frustrating, annoying and you are not protected.
@@moddaboy They are not demanding more pay. Billions of dollar in raise for the corrupt non performing politicians, hefty taxes that never reduced environmental climate change, billions of bailout package to money printing corporations is way more than these working employees. Actually they are not paid more, greedy corporates pay less to other working class employees
...people make fun of public construction workers....take a look at how useless ttc staff are.
Your loaded presto shall be 😮😢useless.
There’s so many criminally underpaid jobs. I find it personally hard to empathize with a group of people who are making on average 136% more than the nation average.
Yet they have no breaks are required to deal with violence with no support. Spit on no scheduled breaks. Who else works like that
It's cause they're unionized workers. Instead of complaining how low other workers are getting paid, why not focus on how high the few at the top are making? If you keep workers wages low, WE ALL STAY LOW. If you focus on knocking down the top, WE ALL RISE!
@@CMLoveLustyes this correct. We all need to be lifted up not held back
THEY DEFINITELY DESERVE WHAT THEIR ASKING FOR... NOT PAYING NOW WILL EFFECT THE FUTURE-
AGREE NOW AND PREVENT ALL THIS...
TTC 👍👍👍🇨🇦✌...
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@@bighitstepsideno this is reality
ttc is a Racket
Everyone owns a car and drives to work right?WRONG!Then why are thousands taking a bus.Schools out so it makes it ok.What about daycare Oh right,everybody drives😮
Since when did Canadian news casters, and media.. need lip injection representation!? Sad for Canadian news. Bad trend. Not polite. And not able to take seriously. I’m 36 years old. And this is sad
Did you hear her "im gojng to have to get a arranged marriage"
Take the bike gee
Milk the wages from all the free riders you guys seem happy to let on.
Go unions go! Politicians and CEOs are destroying Canadians financially, we need strong unions to fight back.
Unions drive up inflation, discourage hiring and new investment, disrupt services and lives, threaten social programs we spent a lifetime paying for and foster a culture of greed and entitlement! Unions do not fight for fairness and justice anymore, that hasn't been the case in over a century, they're simply abused to indulge greed! We need to get rid of unions and replace them with stronger labour laws!
Union swine are the problem
Immigrants will gladly work for minimum wage or less. Hire the immigrants
Remember when the Ontario NDP wanted to make scab workers illegal.
😂
I would love to see new comers take over all public businesses for quarters on the dollar.
Do you want alot more accidents and deaths?
lol they are and accident are out of control
LOL I guess you want more ppl from outside the country coming in? I wonder when you'll cry and beg your boss for a measly raise just to continue living your life in the city. I hope an immigrant paid half or even a quarter your wage replaces you
TTC = Take the car...
Chao Chao left no road drivable
Yes, please take the car and let us know the outcome
@@gardeniat3478 Chao Chao made enough roads and highways that to travel from one place to another in Toronto takes an hour
Try walking.
❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
This is for the "dont get a car" people....Good Luck 🤣
i concur, although, there will be more traffic jams than we already have
People can’t afford cars
Perfect everyone can drive there cars instead. Enjoy the bicycle lanes. 2 percent Raise sounds fair in a recession proof job
This is NOT fair!!!!! Its GREED!!!! They're extremely well paid. What about the single mother who can't feed her kids because she can't get to work? Not everyone has an alternative. This will drive up fair for the rest of us and the TTC is already the 3rd highest fair in the world. The judge was WRONG, of course it's an essential service. This needs to be appealed, the TTC should NEVER be allowed to strike! They're abusing this right to indulge their greed, like all unions. If you don't like your job, quit, but good luck finding such a sweet deal anywhere else!
The drivers are not at fault. Fare hikes are not about driver salaries. They are about management and their lack of effectiveness
@carolyn3172 why are you a single mother?
TTC drivers are ..
1:14
Get a bike
I thought they where supposed to this like 2-3 weeks ago lol . They get pension good benefits they don’t need to strike they are ungrateful plus all those ttc bus driver could make up to 120k with over time . Sometimes I feel people are ungrateful with what they have . Ttc is supposed to serve the public as much as I like unions , I don’t think they should be encouraging people to walk of the job as many people rely on the ttc . People first serve the public and resolve all your outstanding issues in closed doors .
All ceos get raises bonuses etc it’s how it works . Plus all the employees get raises as per their CBA at ttc .
Serving the public is more important then your employment contract .
People need to pay their expenses they can’t fill up on good will
You don't realize how critically incorrect you are. "CEOs make more because they do etc etc and workers make according to CBA" - that's what ppl who accept the wage inequality say. There is a LARGER gap between what the TOP TTC worker made vs what their CEO made, than your average workers vs the TOP TTC worker. It's night and day. Yet ppl focus on knocking down worker pay to match their own low wage? Don't ppl realize that if all we do is knock each other down, then we ALL stay down? We gotta start aiming our sights on those at the top and why they're sitting pretty not concerned about us at the bottom crawling and begging for their scraps
Now you know why we need robots
It’s a dangerous job
People don’t see the assaults and harassment these employee go through daily while NDP ruled tyrant bureaucrats are busy giving millions of raise to CEO despite poor service and outsourced low quality services
So is being in the military!
@@JayWalker200those people sign up for combat. These people are trying to operate heavy equipment through traffic to get your family home safely
@@JayWalker200choosing combat and driving a city bus are not equal in responsibility or duty. It’s not a comparable job
@@JayWalker200 Working for city like Toronto is indeed risking life in war zone daily
Much need to the inflation and carbon tax they pay to commute
Those guys needed to switch jobs, 90% are arrogant, doesn't care about riders, no need less affordable drivers on road, every second day drivers miss behave, after all these why they want more, just quit job.
For a large city the transport in toronto is moronic
Those who blaming transit operators don’t know what their job is
Transit keeps 12 hour spread and the work can be only 5 to 6 hours but transit hold operators for 12 hours (break is unpaid here take note)
So wind short transit operators make around 3000-4000 a month only
Lot of pay goes to taxes
Okey, so let's raise the fare prices to $7 and stop letting kids ride for free.