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OC Transpo Talks Hit Dead-End
Josh Pringle
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Contract negotiations have crashed as the OC Transpo strike turns down an eighth week.
The Amalgamated Transit Union is rejecting the City of Ottawa's "revised bargaining strategy", saying the city has failed to significantly alter its position.
The union representing OC Transpo drivers, dispatchers and mechanics and city negotiators returned to the bargaining table with a Federal mediator on Monday after City Council changed its contract proposal.
ATU International Vice President Randy Graham called the city's new contract offer "show", telling reporters the issues remain the same since the strike began.
Graham says the city remains "entrenched" on the issues of wages and work schedules.
In a media release, the city says its new offer included removing the $25-hundred productivity bonus in return for two per cent more over the remaining two years of the contract. The city also offered to set up a temporary joint management/union committee to devise a scheduling system that includes work/rest rules and improves service reliability.
Mayor Larry O'Brien told CFRA's Afternoon Edition with Rob Snow it's time for the union to make a counter-offer to the city to show where they are ready to "compromise."
This is day 50 of the strike by OC Transpo drivers, dispatchers and mechanics that has shut down public transit in Ottawa since December 10th.
No new talks are scheduled.
OC Transpo Talks Hit Dead-End
Josh Pringle
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Contract negotiations have crashed as the OC Transpo strike turns down an eighth week.
The Amalgamated Transit Union is rejecting the City of Ottawa's "revised bargaining strategy", saying the city has failed to significantly alter its position.
The union representing OC Transpo drivers, dispatchers and mechanics and city negotiators returned to the bargaining table with a Federal mediator on Monday after City Council changed its contract proposal.
ATU International Vice President Randy Graham called the city's new contract offer "show", telling reporters the issues remain the same since the strike began.
Graham says the city remains "entrenched" on the issues of wages and work schedules.
In a media release, the city says its new offer included removing the $25-hundred productivity bonus in return for two per cent more over the remaining two years of the contract. The city also offered to set up a temporary joint management/union committee to devise a scheduling system that includes work/rest rules and improves service reliability.
Mayor Larry O'Brien told CFRA's Afternoon Edition with Rob Snow it's time for the union to make a counter-offer to the city to show where they are ready to "compromise."
This is day 50 of the strike by OC Transpo drivers, dispatchers and mechanics that has shut down public transit in Ottawa since December 10th.
No new talks are scheduled.
