TTC Strike Status: Strike Ends Sunday Night
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roncesvalles streetcar terminal, saturday. photo by somebody_ from the torontoist flickr pool.
Current Status: Strike Ends; Service Resuming Now
LATEST UPDATE: The provincial governmentwith Liberal, PC, and NDP supporthas passed legislation forcing TTC employees back to work (and that bill has been made law by Lieutenant Governor David Onley) in time for service to resume on Sunday night. The TTC has announced that it “is working hard to restore service as quickly as possible,” so it can “bring the service up to safe, normal operating standards.” Service is slowly returning now, and will continue to roll out between 8 and 9 p.m. tonight. Monday morning will see the TTC running as normal, with full service.
Last updated on April 27 at 5:27 p.m.
spadina station, saturday, 6:45 a.m. photo by cy goldsbie, featured in this torontoist article.
Late on Friday, April 26, the TTC union rejected the tentative agreement that had been reached the previous weekend, with 65% of its members voting against the proposed terms. Just before 11:00 p.m. on Friday night, the union issued a news release stating that “a strike will begin as of midnight tonight.” (The TTC released details of that rejected agreement at 12:30 a.m.it had previously been under wraps.) All TTC servicesave for selected Wheel-Trans servicewas shut down from midnight Friday to Sunday evening.
Bob Kinnear, president of TTC employees’ union (Local 113, of the Amalgamated Transit Union) said in the union’s release last night that: “We have assessed the situation and decided that we will not expose our members to the dangers of assaults from angry and irrational members of the public.” Kinnear defended the short notice, saying that “the reports from our members of increases in threats and abuse from passengers last weekend, after we gave our original 48-hours’ notice, has left us no choice but to withdraw our services immediately. We have a legal responsibility to protect the safety of our members and so does the TTC.”
At an address just after midnight, with Chair Adam Giambrone at his side, David Miller praised the original offer, calling it “fair,” and made it clear that he was unhappy with the union’s refusal to give 48-hours’ notice, blaming Kinnear for refusing to honour his commitment. Miller also announced that Dalton McGuinty had agreed to move to legislate the union back to work, says Miller, “at his earliest opportunity.”
roncesvalles streetcar terminal, saturday, 7:13 a.m. photo by bigdaddyhame from the torontoist flickr pool.
Twelve hours later, McGuinty followed through, issuing an order for Ontario Legislature to hold an emergency meeting at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday. Both John Tory and Howard Hampton declared their support for the proposed legislation.
Meanwhile, the TTC and its union returned to negotiations at the Sheraton Parkway hotel just after noon on Saturday. According to Global, “the Union is deeply split and the strike may
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