With two agreements in principle reached in recent days at the Société de transport de Montréal (STM), all eyes are now turning to the unions that have not yet settled – namely that of maintenance employees and other STM professionals.
The two local sections of the Syndicat canadien de la fonction publique (SCFP or Canadian Union of Public Employees CUPE), affiliated with the FTQ, namely the one representing the 4,500 bus drivers and metro operators and the one representing the 1,300 administrative and technical employees, reached an agreement in principle to renew their collective agreement, respectively on Friday and Sunday.
The union representing the 2,400 maintenance employees, of the Fédération des employé(e)s des services publics, affiliated with the CSN, as well as the union representing the 800 professionals, which is a local branch of Syndicat des employé(e)s professionnel(le)s et de bureau (SEPB), affiliated with the FTQ.
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The maintenance workers’ union began its third strike in the early hours of Nov. 1. It was scheduled to last until Nov. 28th, but the union announced its suspension on the evening of Nov. 11, and its members returned to work the following morning.
Placed in the new context where the largest of the STM’s unions, that of bus drivers and metro operators, has reached an agreement in principle, the maintenance employees’ union is now looking for a way to relaunch its negotiation.
As for the union representing the 800 professionals, it recently obtained a 10-day strike mandate, but has not yet announced when it will exercise it. It represents engineers, architects, analysts, and consultants.
–This report by La Presse Canadienne was translated by CityNews
