The Power of Law, part 2

The power of threats is that they are sometime more effective in getting things to move than the execution of the said threat. Knowing that they were about to be smitten by a special law, they chose to go to binding arbitration. At least, it means we are going to have bus service soon.

The sad thing here, of course, is that they couldn't resolve this by themselves. Binding arbitration means that they will all be able to say that they didn't back up until they were forced to. Real mature, for both sides. But I get saving face is still quite important in this world...

Of course, they could have gone to binding arbitration right away instead of having the whole of Ottawa in pain for almost two months. Why they didn't is, I think, a quite heavy question. That a whole city had to go arthritic for so long over scheduling issues defies common sense.