Weekend mediation fails to avert Metro Vancouver transit strike, paralyzing bus and SeaBus service
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Vancouverites who rely on the bus or the SeaBus for their morning commute will face picket lines this morning after weekend negotiations between transit supervisors and the Coast Mountain Bus Company failed to make a deal.
Vancouverites who rely on the bus or the SeaBus for their morning commute will face picket lines this morning after weekend negotiations between transit supervisors and the Coast Mountain Bus Company failed to make a deal.
Picket lines will be up around the city after the company and roughly 180 transit supervisors represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 4500 couldn't come to a deal.
TransLink said there is no bus and SeaBus services due to the job action.
The regional transit authority says the SkyTrain, West Coast Express and HandyDART service are not expected to be impacted.
CUPE 4500 has said its members will be withdrawing all services from Coast Mountain Bus Company for 48 hours.
Bus company president Michael McDaniel says the union has refused to adjust its demand for wage increases despite efforts to reach a compromise.
The union says members need wage discrepancies closed between them and other TransLink supervisors before any lasting settlement is reached.
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