Toronto transit workers' recently restored right to strike was crucial in eleventh-hour contract negotiations with the city's transit agency, the president of their union said Friday as he expressed confidence members would ratify a finalized tentative deal.
Toronto transit workers' recently restored right to strike was crucial in eleventh-hour contract negotiations with the city's transit agency, the president of their union said Friday as he expressed confidence members would ratify a finalized tentative deal.The deal was signed off on by the union's executive early Friday and will be put before its nearly 12,000 members for ratification, said ATU Local 113 president Marvin Alfred.
"This is a fair deal that is affordable for the TTC and respectful of the important work the 11,500 members of ATU Local 113 do every day to keep our system safe and our service reliable," he wrote in a statement. "There had been a lot of different demands that had been on the table for a long, long time. And because of that history, it's complex, there are many issues. So that's probably why it's taken a long time," she said.
The union had long expressed issues with a plan to allow other Greater Toronto transit agencies to provide open-door service in Toronto along cross-boundary bus corridors. Other transit agencies, such as Mississauga's Miway or York Region Transit, have been barred from picking up passengers within Toronto city limits on Toronto-bound trips, or dropping them off in Toronto on the way out.
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