RTD Welcomes us back!

The RTD blog on paper, the Monday Morning Q, is RTD manager Cal Marsella's communications with his employees.

Cal, You do a great job speaking and writing to us. You are really excellent at promoting your point. The only error that I saw was your implying that the RTD Board of Directors was being attacked by the union. Far from it, we found that the Board was very enlightened. They have said they would make sure future negotiations go much smoother.

As you might expect, most of the employees I spoke with did not change their views after reading your defense. It was nice of you to admit that you based our raises on selected average wages in the region, and the high raises of upper management were based on national or international wages. I hope that in the future you at least base our wage raises on comperable cities: cities where the cost of living and inflation rates are similar. Maybe you could even use cities in states where there are no right-to-work-for-less laws. The lack of such a law in Colorado helps to keep the average wages in Colorado well above the states around us.

And by the way, we do support better wages for supervisors and middle management as well.