How the Privatized Toll Road is Working in Indiana

by: Hopeful

Tue Aug 07, 2007 at 10:42:38 PM EDT

During the General Assembly's debate of the toll road sale, there were numerous rallies held to voice support for the privatization scheme. I remember walking in one morning, only to discover that the buses outside had delivered hundreds of union members from across the state. They were there to support what they saw as the perfect opportunity to expand job opportunities in the state, but something just didn't add up....

Unions that were among the greatest supporters of Gov. Mitch Daniels' drive to privatize the Indiana Toll Road now fear construction jobs there may be going to nonunion workers from other countries.
"We are very concerned," said Jim Strayer, business manager for the Northwest Indiana Building and Construction Trades Council. "We are not getting the share of the work that we did before."

The second quote is from The Northwest Indiana and Illinois Times newspaper.

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How the Privatized Toll Road is Working in Indiana | 4 comments

I know, I know (0.00 / 0)

Gov. Corzine says there won't be privatization, just something else. Well, I'm willing to keep kicking the dead horse.

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by: Hopeful @ Wed Aug 08, 2007 at 03:08:06 AM UTC

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AFL-CIO (0.00 / 0)

I hope the head of the AFL-CIO in New Jersey is speaking to Jim Strayer.

by: firstamend07 @ Wed Aug 08, 2007 at 10:29:37 AM UTC

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I believe the Indiana toll road was also to a foreign investor. The model that Corzine keeps discussing is Nav Canada. They've manage to expand services and reduce costs without giving up employ benefits. Sounds like not such a bad deal to me.

by: Thurman Hart @ Wed Aug 08, 2007 at 20:04:07 PM UTC

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Nav Canada is a foreign investor. It's a Canadian company headquartered in Ontario. I was wondering where you got this little tid bit of info:
"They've manage to expand services and reduce costs without giving up employ benefits."
According to the PSAC, Public Service Alliance of Canada"
The union has been successful in making some inroads on the issue of pay equity during this round of bargaining," says Mike Wing, National President of the PSAC's Union of Canadian Transportation Employees. "Since Nav Canada was established as a separate agency almost 10 years ago, the disparity between the salaries of Nav Canada clerical positions and comparable jobs in the federal government has widened.
This hardly sounds like a good deal to me.

Now my friends, I am opposed to the system of society in which we live today, not because I lack the natural equipment to do for myself but because I am not satisfied to make myself comfortable knowing that there are thousands of my fellow men who suffer

by: evdebs @ Thu Aug 09, 2007 at 20:31:48 PM UTC

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