Calgary Commuters Spared For The Moment
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007Commuters can release the breath they’ve been holding since the talks between Calgary and the transit union began to get nasty. Union members voted 69% to accept the city’s last minute deal.
In perhaps what is a fitting finale for this upheaval, Mayor Dave Bronconnier described the majority of the union members (1,464 voted) were in support of the deal which offered a 12% pay raise. He also points out that perhaps the bus and the C-Train drivers didn’t really want to strike after all.
“I don’t believe our employees really wanted to go on strike – they wanted a fair settlement and they got one.”
