Pardon Me For Being A Cynic.......

......and I feel for the TTC employees in the same way I feel for anyone who is assaulted but why do I get this gut feeling that these attacks will be used by the union in negotiating a new contract and will be used by Comrade Miller to justify his lack of balls in standing up to the unions.

TTC drivers in crisis

January 21, 2008

David Bruser
Tess Kalinowski
Staff Reporters

Nearly 200 TTC bus, streetcar and subway operators are suffering from severe stress usually associated with survivors of combat, natural disasters and rape.

Their rate of post-traumatic stress disorder is about four times that of police officers who patrol Toronto streets, and the city's transit drivers report these problems more than any other workers in Ontario, according to provincial data.

Drivers have suffered a wide range of abuse – shot at with an air rifle, punched in the eye, head-butted in the mouth, gashed with a broken beer bottle, to list just a few examples the Star uncovered.

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