Ready has now met with both sides and we expect his report recommendations sometime this week to be presented to both parties and the minister of labour,” he told council. However, Rob Ringma, BC Transit’s government relations manager, spoke in a presentation to Mission council on Tuesday night and said progress is being made. When announcing Ready’s appointment, labour minister Harry Bains said he was “confident he will do everything he can to help the parties end this labour dispute.”īut Ready’s 10-day timeframe was extended on June 23, according to union members who run a Twitter and Instagram account called Ready has requested more time to work with the parties, and there have been no updates from the mediator or employer since.ĬUPE solidarity with Fraser Valley transit workers! /H2P6vYBhpc The only available BC Transit service in the region is select HandyDart service in Abbotsford. Bus service in Abbotsford, Mission, Chilliwack, Agassiz and Hope has been suspended since March 20. Vince Ready was given 10 days to secure a resolution in the impasse between First Transit and CUPE 561 on June 8. Union workers spent Wednesday morning holding a ‘burma shave’ rally at the Lougheed transit station in Burnaby to bring awareness to the issue. Transit workers in the eastern Fraser Valley remain on picket lines, four weeks after a mediator was called in to resolve the ongoing strike.
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