Letter: Bus drivers thank Rutland residents
During the recent transit strike we, the drivers, sent a letter to you, the residents of Rutland. We wished to explain the situation and appeal to you for help. Ten thousand letters were mailed via...
View ArticleLethbridge awarded major funding for transit projects
Transit services in Lethbridge and area got a major boost Saturday with the announcement of $12.55 million in new Federal-Provincial funding. The City will receive $10.1 million from the province’s...
View ArticleTransit union gets another chance to seek compensation
Transit workers were illegally locked out for four weeks in the fall of 2014. The provincial Labour Relations Board earlier ruled that the city had to pay workers back for the first two weeks of lost...
View ArticleNo booze on board: Drug and alcohol tests coming for TTC staff
The TTC has provoked the ire of its largest union by announcing that it will begin randomly testing its employees for drug and alcohol use starting on March 1. In a news release on Thursday, the...
View ArticleSanta Bus crushes collection target
Reino Pitkanen says he was blown away by the generosity of Thunder Bay residents this past weekend. As the chair of the Thunder Bay Food Bank, he was hoping this year’s Santa Bus campaign would match...
View ArticleSaskatoon Transit workers to vote on tentative agreement tonight
Tonight, Saskatoon Transit workers will be voting on a deal that could end a labour scuffle that has lasted for years. Last week, the Amalgamated Transit Union announced it had reached a tentative...
View ArticleWorkers Ratify Transit Agreement
The work to rule campaign and ban open overtime affecting city transit is over. Amalgamated transit union local 615 has ratified a tentative agreement with the City of Saskatoon. That means all transit...
View ArticleSaskatoon transit workers sign new agreement to accept DB pension changes
Saskatoon transit workers have withdrawn their job action, which included work to rule and a ban to overtime, after a majority ratified a collective agreement with the City of Saskatoon on Tuesday....
View ArticleDon’t make Hamilton LRT a private-public partnership, Horwath warns
Andrea Horwath says she’s “really worried” that Hamilton’s light-rail transit (LRT) will be a private operation that places the bottom line over the needs of residents. The Ontario NDP leader and...
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Greetings! As promised at the last Canadian Council meeting, we are forwarding the information from SEIU on the Million Women’s March in Washington on January 21, 2017. If you require any further...
View ArticleTank: Transit troubles resemble a bus loop
Bus routes are based on repetition — driving a bus around the same loop again and again. For that reason, there’s a certain symmetry to having arrived at the same spot as four years ago with respect to...
View ArticleHamilton bus driver praised for quick-thinking after helping man who slipped...
It might be the pain medication, Andrew Taylor jokes — but the Hamilton man is convinced he met an angel. It was last Tuesday, Dec. 20. He had gone to the barber for a shave, and then stopped at the...
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2016 Santa Bus ATU 1722 Kelowna
Congratulations to ATU Local 1722 on the great work they were able to accomplish for the community. The post 2016 Santa Bus ATU 1722 Kelowna appeared first on ATU Canada.
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City hurries to fix bug-plagued radio system before adding police and fire
A new multimillion-dollar radio system plagued by bugs is scheduled to be implemented across the City of Ottawa this year, spurring staff to fix the errors before the police and fire departments hit...
View ArticleSTO not an essential service, board rules as strike looms
As Gatineau’s public transit workers prepare to vote on whether or not to invoke their strike mandate, the Canada Industrial Relations Board ruled Monday that transit is not an essential service. The...
View ArticleOutaouais transit workers serve 72-hour strike notice
Gatineau public transit users could be forced to look at other means of transportation by week’s end as the union that represents the Quebec region’s public transit workers has given the Outaouais...
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Edmonton launches review into ETS safety operations, other departments
Edmonton bus drivers will undergo ride-a-long tests next month as the city begins evaluating safety operations at Edmonton Transit and other departments. City Manager Linda Cochrane announced...
View ArticleExpired transfer reportedly prompted attack on ETS bus
More details on an incident that saw an Edmonton Transit Service bus driver injured Friday came to light. At about 2 p.m. Friday, a bus driver was injured during an incident on a bus in the Castledowns...
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To: All Canadian Officers From: Larry Hanley Re: Unifor Raid Date: February 6, 2017 It is explicitly clear that Bob Kinnear’s efforts to decertify ATU Local 113 are in fact part of a Unifor campaign to...
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Locals ATU Canada, 741, 966,987,846,1572&1573 attending CLC Lobby Day...
The post Locals ATU Canada, 741, 966,987,846,1572&1573 attending CLC Lobby Day training in Ottawa. Lobbying for the Working People! appeared first on ATU Canada.
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