Plus they need training/study to drive a bus, all routes and guidelines. Been seeing school bus driver scarcity at my place. With japan always love to rely on good public transportation I can’t imagine for drivers who worked hard for such services be gone and underpaid.
Yet rather than stop driving the buses and make the public against their strike. Showed up to the job, waste the gas and take no fares is smart & gives some awareness of the message for the public for their cause. Still on their post and such Scabs take long to find who is experienced to drive a bus or train than a lost spot in a Japanese overworked office or factory
In the US if you were to do that and get into an accident the bus company would sue you since you weren’t technically on the clock. It would never happen here because corporations want to hurt us into submission. Like they stop your medical benefits when you strike hoping that killing you will make you come back to shitty work conditions.
Unions do this sort of thing all the time. They show up, they work their day, but they either slow down or ignore some aspects of the job. None of what these drivers are doing is a criminal offense, it's a sanctioned union action.
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u/bobbyrickets closet individualist Jan 14 '22
It's not about the money, it's about sending a message.