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“We’re tired of talking,” said Marvin Alfred, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113 president of proposals offered by the Toronto Transit Commission . “The offers have strings attached.” After days of intense talks with the TTC, in a press conference this morning, Alfred says his bargaining team is “pissed off” and TTC workers are prepared and ready to go on strike. The TTC, he says, is “exploiting” its workers.
ATU Local 113 is currently demanding increases in wages, job security, and benefits, which they say haven’t kept up with the times.10 Pictures That Will Make You Say "Only On The ****ing TTC"anticipated this happening. A strike would literally mean the entire shutdown of subway, bus, and streetcar service and would close TTC stations all together. Wheel-Trans will continue to operate, however.
In the case of 2008, the strike lasted less than two days. Calling the hasty strike action “unacceptable and irresponsible,” then Toronto mayor David Miller made a request to then Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty for a back-to-work-legislation to mandate TTC workers back on the job. On April 26, the provincial government had a Sunday sitting of the Ontario legislature to consider Bill 66.
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