Codiac Transit / Transpo

[Acadiaman]

At lease if you work at for the concert you have lost of busses to go to your work.

[BristolUK]

Today's T&T had an editorial siding with The City, backing the lock out (surprise surprise) and finished with

Yet we also sympathize with the rank-and-file members of the union. This is not their fault. In our opinion, their leadership has seriously miscalculated the current mood of citizens, the resolve of council and its own strategy. We hope for the sake of union members that a return to the bargaining table comes quickly.

This is a very strange thing to say. The rank and file voted for the strike.

Since they have been in the legal strike position, they could have gone on strike, removing the bus service, at any time over the last two months.

But they have not done so.

As Paladin has shown, The City has misled the public with half truths and gaps in information in their propaganda. The City has also proved themselves to be liars with that nonsense blaming the dispute for the mechanics shortage, when they were short on mechanics for at least two years.

And now, after a lengthy period of the drivers NOT striking, The City has locked them out, depriving people of the service. And the T&T backs it. Absolutely unbelievable.

[BristolUK]

I just sent this to the T&T editor.

You have got to be kidding. We were lied to when we were told the dispute was to blame for the shortage of the mechanics – the shortage that goes back two years.

The rank and file voted for strike action. The union and its members have not yet taken their legal right to strike. Most people would think that was responsible and moderate. But now the City has locked them out, denying citizens of Moncton a bus service. That doesn’t sound responsible or moderate.

And the T&T backs the decision? Unbelievable. Right now I can’t see why I shouldn’t cancel my subscription to the paper. Perhaps I should cancel it and put the money towards my stepdaughter’s cab fare to work.

I’m going to stop now before I resort to the abuse that you so richly deserve.

[willie c wuddle]

When London's bus drivers threatened to go on strike half the customers knew what to do. The other half were left up in the air.

[Notme]

 i would have lock them out a long time ago   because the real reason of the strike is not wages .. it the lack of the city being able to find new people  .. no one want to work for a company  that cannot guarranty their hours ......

 here the way it works    all senoirs employees  are offered  overtime before the new or casual  are offered  their regular hours  therefore making them have no hours ....   

[Acadiaman]

I get mad for no bus. i call a taxi and the bus driver is driving the taxi. He dot'n except my bus pass so i have to pay cash.

[BristolUK]

At various times during the dispute there has been a handful of considerate souls who wrote to the paper saying drivers should be sacked (and have them and their families suffer hardship, debt etc) for exercising their legal rights.

I'm a bit puzzled that since the city locked them out that there hasn't been a single letter in the paper about the dispute. Perhaps it's still early, but there has certainly been long enough and not a word.

I wonder why.

[willie c wuddle]

I wonder if the recent name change from Codiac Transit to Codiac Transpo has some secret meaning to it.

[BristolUK]

I posted a comment before about how these things are reported. The employer offers 3% and the union demands 5%. The employer is benevolently offering help and the union demands something more.

How different it would look if the union offered to accept 5% but the employer demanded they accept 3%.

See how it's not a level playing field?

Here's another thing that's loaded onto one side. The union has to vote on a strike. It's the law. Having voted in favour (92% was it?) they then have to give 24 hours notice of actually striking.

Yet the employer can lock them out and cancel the service with zero notice. And perhaps no vote either.

And people think unons have too much power. 

[Jesso Yewno]

I wonder if the recent name change from Codiac Transit to Codiac Transpo has some secret meaning to it.

You tell me....

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English  (noun and v.) < Latin tr?nsitus  a going across, passage, equivalent to tr?nsi-,  variant stem of tr?ns?re  to cross ( tr?ns- trans-  + -?re  to go) + -tus  suffix of v. action

[willie c wuddle]

I was in Victoria Park earlier and I never realized how many trucks go up and down Weldon Street. Everytime I heard one I automatically looked to see which bus was coming.

[Jesso Yewno]

Moncton bus dispute heading to conciliation

City locked out 90 transit workers last week

CBC News  Jul 3, 2012
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2012/07/03/nb-codiac-transpo-conciliation-1204.html

Moncton and the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1290 will be meeting with a conciliator next week in the hopes of ending the week-old lockout.

Paul Thomson, a spokesman for the city, said he’s hopeful the meeting with the conciliator will bring an end to the contract dispute.

“We are not close in terms of where we need to be with regards to wages and language. But again, this is a first step and it's a necessary first step,” he said.

“We can't come to a resolution of this without meeting, so in that sense it's positive but there are some miles, some ground that has to be covered to get something done for sure.”

The sides haven't had any discussions since April, when the Amalgamated Transit Union workers voted to strike.

Representatives from the union could not be reached for comment on the latest development in the dispute.

[willie c wuddle]

I feal bad for the poor guy who had the old clunker of a vehicle. Somebody convinced him to sign it over and get a year's Codiac transportation. It was a bit inconvenient, as he could go less places, but would save him a lot of money in the long run. Now he has no vehicle, no busses, lost his job, his wife moved out, and soon he will be evicted. I suppose he can't ask for his old clunker back so he can find a new job, look for a new apartment, and start dating again.*




*Legal Disclaimer...The above story is not fact but purely fiction. It is only created to illistrate the point that this whole situation could effect people a lot harder than the major inconvenience it causes most of us.

[Notme]

BREAK THE UNION .....
 there demands are foolish

[BristolUK]

BREAK THE UNION .....
 their offers are foolish

Break the union, notme? I didn't think you had such a contempt for democracy at work