The rejection of the contract must be made the starting point for an organized rebellion against the ATU leadership through the building of rank-and-file committees.
Horwath’s green-lighting of third party strike-breaking initiatives should come as no surprise to workers, especially to those in the ATU. The NDP claims to defend workers’ rights, but it has repeatedly been complicit in attacking them.
Members of ATU Local 107 begin picketing outside the HSR Mountain transit center on Upper James after they failed to reach a deal with city negotiators earlier this week.
Talks between the union and city resumed Tuesday morning to hammer out a resolution to avoid a transit strike as well as protocol if a collective agreement is not reached.
The Amalgamated Transit Union Local 107 says their members will be in a legal strike of the HSR transit system midweek, and plan to walk out November 9th from 12:01 am.