Bus drivers in Japan are on strike by continuing to drive their routes.

[patq911]

https://japantoday.com/category/national/okayama-buses-strike-by-continuing-to-run-and-refusing-to-take-anyone%E2%80%99s-money

TOKYO
Bus drivers in Okayama working with Ryobi Group have taken to the streets in an unusual form of protest. While technically on strike, they are continuing to drive their routes while refusing to take fares from passengers.

titles are too fucking short, I had no choice but to sensationalize it.

[Peachy]

That's pretty cool. This lets them effectively strike without fucking up the thing they're attempting to preserve.

[dcalde78]

Reading the title, I immediately thought that basically the general public was going to be completely fucked - given how ridiculously good the public transport is in Japan, but that's a very creative and intelligent way to go about it. They're still providing the important service that's needed in Japan, and avoiding the company actually earning any profits (causing losses by running the buses too, though I wonder how the insurance standpoint is in this situation).

[Thelurker1234]

Makes sense in the context of a rival bus company kicking their asses too

Shutting the buses down for a few days would be a pretty stellar way to make people look at their competition.

[Froztshock]

It's an interesting idea but couldn't the company just revoke their keys to the buses or something? It feels like, unless this was organized pretty spontaneously or secretively, it'd get shut down pretty easily because the companies wouldn't want them wasting gas while making no profits.

...Then again, it'd probably be worse for the company to not have buses on the road at all, given the fact that they've got a serious rival in town. Huh.

[Peachy]

Yeah, this is a no win situation for the company.
Shit, the employees are effectively showing good will here by doing this on the same day as the competition comes deploys.

[écuyerq]

i've been reading about this the past few months, i really hope it doesn't affect me too bad when i'm in there in june...but.. sucks to be dealing with it and exams, though.

[Zet]

Bus drivers here did the same thing a few months ago. It was an interesting way to strike in my opinion, and I hope it works out for them.