Fraser Valley bus drivers to halt service Monday, Tuesday in contract dispute
HandyDART service will not be affected, the union said.
The two-day service outage comes amid ongoing contract issues. The union says if they can’t reach a deal by Feb. 28, “job action will escalate in the following weeks.” Transit workers are locked in a protracted contract dispute with U.S.-based First Transit, which is contracted by BC Transit to deliver service in Chilliwack, Abbotsford and the surrounding region.The union stopped collecting fares on Feb. 2, and warned at the time that it could escalate to service withdrawals by the end of the month if the dispute dragged on.
“We had hoped to reach a fair collective agreement without any disruption in service, but First Transit had other ideas. The company cannot be surprised that we have arrived at this point,” CUPE 561 president Jane Gibbons said in a media release. “We were clear when this job action began that we wanted to cause as little inconvenience as possible to the riding public. We wanted to give residents ample notice of what might lie ahead if First Transit did not come to the table with a different approach.”
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