Possible Skytrain Strike this week

[purelife]

 [H1][FONT face=Verdana color=midnightblue size=6][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 24pt; COLOR: midnightblue; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"]Skytrain workers vote in favour of strike[?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /][o:p][/o:p][/SPAN][/FONT][/H1] [SPAN class=storydate][FONT face=Verdana color=midnightblue size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: midnightblue; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"]December 08, 2006 - 4:10 pm[/SPAN][/FONT][/SPAN][FONT face=Verdana color=midnightblue size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: midnightblue; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"]

VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - Skytrain stations could be behind picket lines next week. Workers have voted 90-percent in favour of a strike.  If talks fail on Wednesday - workers could walk off the job by next Friday.[o:p][/o:p][/SPAN][/FONT]

 [FONT face=Verdana color=midnightblue size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: midnightblue; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"]The union says its members are looking for better wages and benefits - and compensation for extending their collective agreement beyond the 2010 Olympics.[o:p][/o:p][/SPAN][/FONT]

 [FONT face=Verdana color=midnightblue size=2][SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: midnightblue; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"]Over five-hundred workers took part in the strike vote - including Skytrain attendants,control operators and maintenance workers.[o:p][/o:p][/SPAN][/FONT]

[purelife]

This isn't going to be fun and for how long, unknown. *sigh*

[kingy]

and i bet the bus drivers union wont want to cross the picket line so that probably means no bus??

[purelife]

I hope that buses don't go on strike.  That would really suck.

[Orik]

and thats why i ride a bike...

 

[Lise]

Wonderful. Typical. Sucks for commuters.

[Russ]

They are far overpaid anyhow and the Union gives them far too much.

  This will hurt their customers... again.  But they dont care cause they know the taxpayer will pay them regardless of what joe blow public thinks.

[kitten]

Few of their customers are well-off, so the poor are going to be paying for their increase.....again!

[kingy]

arent they already in debt from the canada line?

[Russ]

I dont know kingy, this is all I could find on it. [A href="vny!://www.canadaline.ca/aboutFinancing.asp"]vny!://www.canadaline.ca/aboutFinancing.asp[/A] I didnt know they had a website.

I also think google really sucks as it pops up all these debt places from the US when you pop in canada line debt.

[kingy]

i guess we can bump this thread every couple of years

    [DIV class=articleCopy] VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - If you think traffic is bad in the city these days with Canada Line construction and the usual roadwork, it could get a whole lot worse. Bus drivers could be on strike as early as next week.

 The bus drivers, members of Canadian Auto Workers Local 111, are planning to hold a vote later this week and if that goes through, they could end up issuing 72-hour strike notice. Their deal with the Coast Mountain Bus Company expired over the weekend, and the company has said that means we could see service disruptions as early as next week.

 However, TransLink insists riders shouldn't worry because a plan is in place should there be any job action. TransLink says a media blackout is underway on terms, so we don't know who wants what or how far away they are. TransLink also says it's part of the normal bargaining process for the union to consult its membership using a strike vote when talks break down

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[purelife]

*sigh*  Oh brother...

[P.C.]

Seems like their timing is off.  Don't they usually strike when it has the greatest effect?  Like tourist season.  [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/frech/p026.gif" border=0]