Game three of the World Series will be played in Philadelphia on Saturday night. The City of Brotherly Love is a hard-luck sports town, although the Phillies won their second world championship last year. The Phils square off against the New York Yankees; the Fall Classic begins in the Bronx on Wednesday.
Philly fans, and New Yorkers who make the trip south on Interstate 95, might be in for some major league headaches on Halloween evening--workers for the local transit company, SEPTA, voted Sunday night to authorize a strike. Willie Brown, president of the Transport Workers Union Local 234, says he will call a strike by the end of the week--just in time for the World Series "This is no joke, this is no hoax, it's going to happen," he said.
Yay team!
Yes, the last Philadelphia transit strike began on Halloween in 2005--sans the Phillies in the Series. And Sunday's strike vote was called two weeks ago--before the Phils disposed of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Championship Series--although the smart money was on the NL East champions to return to the World Series to defend their title.
But if these transit public servants were truly public servants, they'd wait till after the World Series for their walk out.
If one is even necessary, that is. One million people use SEPTA services daily.
This is just another example of mischief from a government employees' union.
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