After less than a day on strike, Blue Bus drivers will be back on the road Tuesday morning after a tentative agreement was met with the District of West Vancouver late Monday night.

3 unions encourage other University of Manitoba staff to join picket line.

Hundreds of University of Manitoba staff members, including sessional instructors, caretakers and administrative personnel, are required to work during a faculty strike, but unions are encouraging them to show support for the roughly 1,200 strikers.

Public transit users have a little more time to figure out an alternate form of transportation.

The Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 1722, served 72 hour strike notice Thursday, after contract talks ground to a halt and were in a position to take job action as of Sunday. They’re waiting, however, for the membership to weigh in on the deal that triggered the strike notice.

That will be done Tuesday night, said Scott Lovell, president of ATU local 1722.

“Then at that point we will present a strike action plan and the membership will judge what they are comfortable with,” he said.

“We regret we may have to withdraw our services, but we must take action due to the inability of First Canada to negotiate a fair collective agreement with us.”

Transit drivers in the Central Okanagan will hit the picket lines Thursday.

The announcement was made Tuesday night by Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1722 president Scott Lovell.

Lovell said union members voted to reject the latest offer from First Canada, a multi-national corporation based in Scotland.

KELOWNA – While the City of Kelowna says it will stay out the dispute between Central Okanagan bus drivers and the company that manages them, city staff are still keeping a close eye on what could be a long and protracted fight.

Members of the Amalgamated Transit Union local 1722, which represents bus drivers and support staff from Kelowna, West Kelowna, Peachland and Lake Country, walked off the job this morning, Nov. 10 at 4:30 a.m. and at noon surrounded a neighbouring city works lot on Hardy Street.

President Scott Lovell says forcing city workers to find last minute places to store their work vehicles is necessary in order to get the city’s attention.

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 agreement with the City of Saskatoon after their latest round of bargaining.

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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 service is back to the regular schedule. The city says that the agreement includes a 10 per cent wage hike and back pay to 2012.

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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.

Members of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 615 voted 55.83 per cent in favour of the agreement and city council will finalize the deal with a vote on Thursday. By signing the new agreement, transit workers have agreed to join eight other unions and associations in accepting changes to the defined benefit pension plan.

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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 Hamilton Centre MPP discussed the project in a Facebook Live interview Wednesday with CBC Hamilton.

Horwath said she’s concerned about plans to make LRT a private-public partnership, or P3. The $1 billion system should be publicly owned and operated, she said.

“If the service is about providing value to private interest, how do we make sure it’s Hamiltonians’ interests that are at the top of the agenda?”

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