M Posted April 8, 2005 Report Share Posted April 8, 2005 Toronto transit workers to strike Monday Last Updated Fri, 08 Apr 2005 15:17:00 EDT CBC News:: TORONTO - People in Toronto will face commuter chaos on Monday as the city's transit workers say they'll walk off the job then. The union representing 8,400 employees turned down the Toronto Transit Commission's final offer in negotiations on Friday. The union had set Friday noon as its deadline for what it called an "acceptable" offer, and had said no further talks would be scheduled over the weekend if a deal was not reached by then. In a news conference Friday afternoon, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113 president Bob Kinnear said the TTC would now have the weekend to think about the consequences of its negotiating strategy. However, he refused to say if the union would still refuse to come back to negotiations if the TTC tables an improved offer before the strike is set to begin. In March, TTC workers rejected an offer that would have given them two per cent raises in the first three years of a five-year contract. TTC Chair Howard Moscoe said the commission "moved heaven and hell" to come up with the best offer. "I don't know what the union wants," he said. Moscoe said he was prepared to continue discussions around the clock "until we put this to bed." A strike would leave hundreds of thousands of people scrambling to find ways to get to work. The TTC carries about 1.3-million passengers each day. The TTC workers' contract expired April 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paisley Posted April 8, 2005 Report Share Posted April 8, 2005 ouch.I don't live in Toronto but thats an awful lot of people who suddenly need to find an alternate route to work and school. is there a really good ride-share website out there? preferably something Toronto specific Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted April 8, 2005 Report Share Posted April 8, 2005 I know http://www.ridelink.ca can handle carpooling. Aloha, Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Display_Name Posted April 8, 2005 Report Share Posted April 8, 2005 ....guess I'll be biking to work on Monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenenbaum Posted April 8, 2005 Report Share Posted April 8, 2005 interesting TTC article in EYE last week I'm sure the brains behind the TTC are busy and all, but after reading this artcile, they sure sound like blase party poopers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Evil_Mouse Posted April 8, 2005 Report Share Posted April 8, 2005 interesting TTC article in EYE last week I'm sure the brains behind the TTC are busy and all, but after reading this artcile, they sure sound like blase party poopers. There's a response this week from Howard Moscoe that's worth reading as well. Response from Howard Moscoe Sounds like a big mess of bureaucratic inertia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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