The school bus drivers on strike on 28 February

QMI agency

Wednesday, 21 February, 2018 06:46

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School bus drivers of the company Transco will again be on strike on 28 February. It will be their third day of strike, since no agreement between their union and their employer has not been found.

“We regret having to exercise our medium pressure ultimate for our employer to grasp, finally, that the drivers who are in his employment do not want it tendeth to poverty. Being ourselves parents, we understand very well the effect of this cessation of work on the families that we serve each morning. We still wanted our fair share of the money that the school boards are to provide to our employer to increase our salary properly,” said Carole Laplante, president of the Syndicate of workers of Transco-CSN (STTT-CSN), in a press release published Wednesday morning.

On the 23rd of January last, the members of the STTT-CSN members had rejected the latest offers of employers to 98 %, while continuing their mandate of a three-day strike.

They have already had two days strike on 30 and 31 January.

On 12 February, an extraordinary general meeting, the tentative agreement reached on 31 January was defeated at 83 %.

“During the day of 28 February, the union will consult its members at an extraordinary general meeting to adopt a new mandate for strike action, up to and including indefinite general strike”, one can read.

The approximately 330 drivers from Transco serve approximately 15 000 students attending schools in four school boards and one private facility on the island of Montreal, which will be affected by this conflict.

The routes affected by the strike

Lester B. Pearson school board: 2640 students on 55 roads

Commission scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys: 3936 students on 82 roads

Commission scolaire de Montréal: 2832 students on 59 routes

English Montreal school board: 4224 students on 88 routes

The College of St. Anne, a private institution: 864 students on 18 roads