I’m so glad unions are here to protect people who desperately need help. The National Post outlined a plan which was to be put in place on Mississauga Transit buses. Drivers would have had to announce the next bus stop. Good thing the union helped out… who knows what would have happened if this plan had gone through!

Plans called for drivers to indicate stops by either shouting or using a microphone. Signs would be installed on the city’s bus stops to assist drivers in remembering which location came next on their route. But the city’s transit union quickly objected to the plan, arguing it would be dangerous to ask drivers to read road signs while driving.

“You cannot drive and read — that’s impossible,” said Vito Tomas, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1572.

I’m absolutely dumbfounded.