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Toronto Star
2 days ago
- Business
- Toronto Star
First mediation session to begin Monday in Montreal public transit strike
MONTREAL - The first mediation session between Montreal's public transit authority and its striking maintenance workers is scheduled to begin on Monday. About 2,400 maintenance workers have been on strike for four days after more than a year of negotiating. Bus and metro service has been reduced to 50 per cent but is supposed to return to normal for the Canadian Grand Prix weekend. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Bruno Jeannotte is the president of the maintenance workers union. He told reporters that the mediator will meet separately with both sides to get familiar with each party's positions. The strike is scheduled to end on June 17 but Jeannotte has said the union is prepared to escalate if a deal isn't reached. This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 12, 2025.
Winnipeg Free Press
2 days ago
- Business
- Winnipeg Free Press
First mediation session to begin Monday in Montreal public transit strike
MONTREAL – The first mediation session between Montreal's public transit authority and its striking maintenance workers is scheduled to begin on Monday. About 2,400 maintenance workers have been on strike for four days after more than a year of negotiating. Bus and metro service has been reduced to 50 per cent but is supposed to return to normal for the Canadian Grand Prix weekend. Bruno Jeannotte is the president of the maintenance workers union. He told reporters that the mediator will meet separately with both sides to get familiar with each party's positions. Monday Mornings The latest local business news and a lookahead to the coming week. The strike is scheduled to end on June 17 but Jeannotte has said the union is prepared to escalate if a deal isn't reached. This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 12, 2025.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
First mediation session to begin Monday in Montreal public transit strike
MONTREAL — The first mediation session between Montreal's public transit authority and its striking maintenance workers is scheduled to begin on Monday. About 2,400 maintenance workers have been on strike for four days after more than a year of negotiating. Bus and metro service has been reduced to 50 per cent but is supposed to return to normal for the Canadian Grand Prix weekend. Bruno Jeannotte is the president of the maintenance workers union. He told reporters that the mediator will meet separately with both sides to get familiar with each party's positions. The strike is scheduled to end on June 17 but Jeannotte has said the union is prepared to escalate if a deal isn't reached. This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 12, 2025. The Canadian Press 擷取數據時發生錯誤 登入存取你的投資組合 擷取數據時發生錯誤 擷取數據時發生錯誤 擷取數據時發生錯誤 擷取數據時發生錯誤
Montreal Gazette
2 days ago
- Business
- Montreal Gazette
‘Let's hope the tone changes' or there could be another strike, STM union warns
By Montreal transit returned to around-the-clock service Thursday, albeit on a reduced schedule, but a fresh strike remains possible, the maintenance workers union warned. The STM and the union remain fair apart on key issues, union president Bruno Jeannotte said at a Thursday morning press conference. 'Let's hope that the tone changes at the negotiation table,' Jeannotte said. When the union and employer met Wednesday, 'that was not the case,' he said. Both sides agreed to appoint a mediator Wednesday, who is set to meet with the STM and union separately Friday, Jeannotte said. A meeting between the union, employer and mediator is scheduled for Monday, he added. Bus and métro service will run during usual hours Thursday, but at 50 per cent frequency off peak hours. Service will return to normal between Friday and Sunday for the Grand Prix weekend before dropping again to reduced frequencies for the last two days of the nine-day strike, Monday and Tuesday of next week.
Montreal Gazette
06-06-2025
- Business
- Montreal Gazette
Explainer: How did we get to an STM strike?
By Barring any last-minute deal, the 2,400 maintenance workers at Montreal's public transit agency are heading on strike next week. The pressure tactic comes after dozens of meetings spanning more than a year between the Société de transport de Montréal and the union at the bargaining table. Bus and métro service will be entirely cut at certain times and reduced at others during the nine-day walkout, meaning commuters will have to find another way to work, school and home. The Gazette looked at how the situation evolved to this point. Dozens of meetings The union representing maintenance workers and management at the STM have not yet reached a deal. Bruno Jeannotte, president of the Syndicat du transport de Montréal–CSN, said the contract expired Jan. 4 and the two sides have had about 75 meetings to date. 'We've already been negotiating for a year and two months,' he said in an interview Thursday. The latest meeting took place Wednesday, with another set for next week. Jeannotte said there was no attempt by the STM to schedule another meeting before the strike begins. In an email, a spokesperson for the STM said Thursday that meetings are continuing and that it proposed a facilitator to speed up negotiations. The agency will provide an update to users 'if the situation evolves.' The issues The sticking points for maintenance workers include schedules, the use of subcontractors including for paratransit service, and finding ways to retain and attract staff. Jeannotte said current workers won't accept setbacks in working conditions, adding that young people are not applying for the agency's open maintenance positions. 'We want to keep our public transit. We want to maintain our reliability,' he said. The STM declined The Gazette's request for an interview Thursday, saying it spoke about the subject during a news conference Wednesday. But the agency has said it wants more flexibility in the location and schedules of its employees and assigning outsourcing work like garbage collection. Essential services Maintenance workers' first attempt to strike in late May failed. Quebec's labour tribunal rejected the union's proposed one-day walkout, which would have maintained bus service but completely shut down the métro system. It ruled it didn't meet the standards of public safety. The union's second attempt — which is a longer and staggered cut to service — came after talks. The STM's management noted that 'a level of essential services was agreed upon between the parties' and submitted to the tribunal. This included 'maintaining paratransit service at all times, maintaining a certain level of service for buses and the métro, and adding additional provisions to ensure the smooth running of the F1 Montreal Grand Prix festivities.' The tribunal had to decide whether those planned essential services would be sufficient to avoid endangering public health or safety. It approved the labour action Monday. It will mark the first time transit workers walked off the job since 2007. Vulnerable commuters Ahmed El-Geneidy, a professor in transport planning at McGill University, said the strike and limited transit service during off-peak hours will impact low-income workers and students. He pointed to how the walkout will occur during high school exams and how some shift workers could be without a way to get to work. 'The timing of when you are cutting service or when you're using this tool to negotiate, it's actually problematic because those who will be harmed the most are the vulnerable groups,' El-Geneidy said in an interview Thursday. The head of the union said the 'goal isn't to strike and disrupt people's personal lives' but to move contract negotiations forward. Jeannotte also said that while public transit service will be offered during Grand Prix weekend, it was a question of safety. 'It's not because it's the Grand Prix. It's really the volume of people that compromises us in our strike and in the obligation to consider the public safety aspect,' he said. More strikes? When asked about other potential strikes, Jeannotte said 'it's a possibility' if a deal isn't reached. 'We're not there right now. That's the problem,' he said. 'What we're saying is that we're going to maintain some form of pressure, that's for sure.' On Wednesday, STM CEO Marie-Claude Léonard conceded it could be a difficult summer for transit users as the agency negotiates with four unions. Last weekend, the STM's bus and métro operators also voted 99 per cent in favour of a strike mandate. Lack of funding Both the STM and the union have called on the Quebec government to invest more in the city's public transit. The province needs to treat bus and métro as essential, and help keep them running, according to El-Geneidy. 'They shouldn't be cutting the money on operations that they were providing a couple of years ago,' he said. with files from Jason Magder and Presse Canadienne
