Canadian Union of Public Employees 4500 (CUPE) appears to be following through with its original stated plan that the current shutdown of TransLink’s bus and SeaBus services across Metro Vancouver will last for 48 hours.
This means about 200 bus routes across the region and the SeaBus ferries between Lonsdale and downtown Vancouver could restart services on the morning of Wednesday, January 24.
But the restart of bus and SeaBus services could be temporary — a mere reprieve — if TransLink’s Coast Mountain Bus Company (CMBC) and CUPE 4500 are unable to reach an agreement before another round of job escalation.
If services restart on Wednesday morning, the 180 bus operations supervisors currently on strike will revert to the “baseline” job action disruption of an overtime ban, which first began on January 6.
Remember all of those politicians saying you don’t need a car because of transit? Guess who didn’t get screwed by a transit strike? Yup, people with cars.
