TTC workers vote overwhelmingly in favour of ratifying new contract
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Members of the union representing nearly 12,000 public transit workers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of ratifying their latest contract with the TTC.
Members of the union representing nearly 12,000 public transit workers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of ratifying their latest contract with the TTC.
More than 80 per cent of the members of Amalgamated Transit Unit (ATU) Local 113 support the three-year agreement.
The results were released on Tuesday shortly after 10 p.m.
The bargaining process between the TTC and ATU Local 113 began earlier this year. Workers had been without a deal since their last contract expired in March.
Negotiations were complex and went down to the wire.
On June 6, less than an hour before the 12:01 a.m. deadline, the union announced that it reached a “framework agreement” with the transit agency. ATU Local 113 said the agreement came after it saw "action" on critical issues such as job security, benefits and wages.
The union, in a June 18 news release, said that its goal was to obtain a new contract that would “reflect the hard work of our members and the service they provide to Torontonians every single day.”
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