Bus and SeaBus providers in Metro Vancouver resumed Wednesday morning after the top of a 48-hour strike by supervisors that introduced Coast Mountain Bus Firm routes to a standstill.
Regional transport operator TransLink says common providers had resumed by round 4 a.m. aside from the NightBus service, which returns Wednesday night.
The union representing greater than 180 transit supervisors had stated its members could be again at work by 3 a.m. and Coast Mountain stated it anticipated providers to be operating usually earlier than the morning rush hour.
Whereas it’s again to work, there’s no decision in sight for the contract dispute behind the shutdown that the bus firm says affected 300,000 riders every day.
Talks between the Canadian Union of Public Workers Native 4500 and Coast Mountain broke down on Sunday.
The bus firm says the union is demanding a 25 per cent pay rise and says that’s unreasonable, whereas the union says Coast Mountain tried to bully it within the negotiations.
No date has been set for the resumption of negotiations, however B.C.’s Labour Minister Harry Bains stated Monday he was contemplating appointing a particular mediator to discover a method by way of the deadlock.
The strike by the transit supervisors had halted Coast Mountain providers as a result of drivers who belong to a special union refused to cross picket strains.
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