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Bombardier workers in Thunder Bay are proud to be building the next generation of TTC subway and streetcars.
But right now, we are on strike.
Bombardier wants us to accept a deal that would mean when young workers at Bombardier retire, we will go without the security and dignity we deserve. We know the company can afford better.
Big projects that use public dollars, like building a new fleet for the TTC, should result in jobs in Ontario. And those jobs should be good ones that help build a brighter future for our province.
Striking Bombardier workers from Thunder Bay are headed to Toronto to put pressure on the TTC not to accept vehicles assembled by replacement workers and to encourage municipal and provincial governments to urge the employer to reconsider their attack on workers' pensions.
The workers are responsible for building the Toronto Rocket subway cars, bi-level coaches for GO Transit, as well as the new TTC streetcars that are scheduled to be released on August 31.
More than 900 workers at Bombardier's Thunder Bay facility, members of Unifor local 1075, have been on strike since July 14. They are striking to protect pensions and retiree benefits as well as good jobs that were created here in Ontario by public investment in transit projects.
Actions are planned at the following locations and times:
- Tuesday, August 12
- 3:30-5:30pm, Spadina TTC station
- 3:30-5:30pm, Spadina TTC station
- Wednesday, August 13
- 5:30-7:30am and 2:00-3:30pm, Bombardier Aerospace facility, 123 Garratt Blvd., North York
- 8-10am, Wilson TTC station
- Thursday, August 14
- 10-11am, TTC head office and TTC Davisville station, 1900 Yonge Street
- 11am-12:30pm, GO Transit head office, 20 Bay Street
