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Unifor, the union representing bus operators and transit maintenance workers, has announced that today's transit strike talks failed to reach a fair resolution.
Unifor Western Regional Director 鈦avin McGarrigle said that talks with TransLink failed to reach a fair resolution for transit workers. As a result, transit operators will move forward with Friday's overtime ban by bus drivers.聽
Unifor Western Regional Director 鈦︹仼 announces that today鈥檚 talks with 鈦︹仼 have failed to reach a fair resolution for transit workers and Friday鈥檚 overtime ban by bus drivers will go ahead
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Earlier this week, Unifor announced it would introduce a one-day overtime ban on Friday, Nov. 15. However, it added that it would also consider an overtime ban next week, too.
Since the dispute began, nearly聽100 Seabus sailings聽have been cancelled and the impacts of an overtime ban in maintenance have聽begun to impact numerous bus routes聽across the region.
Yesterday, CUPE 7000, the union representing 900 SkyTrain workers, says negotiations with the BC Rapid Transit Company (SkyTrain) had reached a deadlock and that it would go to union members to seek direction for its next steps.
