OttawaCitizen:
OTTAWA — Ottawa’s largest transit union has rejected the city’s final contract settlement offer, and with a strike set to start at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday morning, city officials say they have no intention of making another offer.
At a late afternoon press conference Monday, city transit manager Alain Mercier said top officials with the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 279 had rejected a three-year offer with wage increases of three, two and two per cent over three years.
The last Ottawa transit strike was in 1996. It began in late November and lasted 24 days. Buses were back on the road on Dec. 19 that year.