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Comment by spikels | Hacker News Reader

The percentage of members of the two BART unions that voted for the strike is also public. It was not close.

   SEIU 98.5%
   ATU  99.9%

Sounds like they have legit grievances then.

> The percentage of members of the two BART unions that voted for the strike is also public. It was not close.

Those numbers (upwards of 90%) look like the numbers won by dictators in rigged elections. Who monitors the union voting process?

Union ballots are well regulated and usually even put incredibly unfair restrictions on the unions. They achieve this result in a very simple way:

Their members want it.

> Union ballots are well regulated

Says who? The unions? What outside observers monitor the ballots?