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VANCOUVER — Members of Unifor Locals 111 and 2200 have voted to reject the tentative agreement reached with Coast Mountain Bus Company.

“Members delivered a strong strike mandate earlier this round, and that mandate remains in place,” said Unifor Western Regional Director Gavin McGarrigle. “Unifor is not rushing to job action and is focused first on working with members to win the changes they need.”

This week, transport workers and unions around the world are joining the International Transport Workers’ Federation’s Safe Rates Week of Action. Unifor is with them, fully and without reservation.

The connection between driver pay and road safety is documented and measurable. When workers are paid too little for the time they work, they drive longer hours, skip rest, and take risks no worker should ever have to take. 

That is not a choice. It is what an industry built on cost-cutting produces.

VANCOUVER — Unifor Locals 111 and 2200 have reached a tentative agreement with Coast Mountain Bus Company covering more than 5,000 transit workers across Metro Vancouver.

“This tentative agreement reflects the strength and unity of our members across both locals, who stood together for a fair deal,” said Unifor Local 111 President Mike McMillan. “Transit and SeaBus workers keep Metro Vancouver moving every day, and this agreement recognizes the essential work they do.”

Unifor members at Coast Mountain Bu

VICTORIA – Unifor Local 333-BC members at BC Transit in Victoria, British Columbia have voted 97 per cent in favour of strike action, delivering a strong mandate to their bargaining committee as contract talks continue.

“There’s a reason members voted the way they did, and it comes down to wanting to be treated fairly for essential work,” said Unifor National President Lana Payne. “This mandate puts real weight behind our committee, and we’ll use it to push for the agreement these transit workers have earned.”

Unifor Local 4050 members at CommerceLink Logistics in Calgary and Nisku, Alberta, have ratified their first collective agreement, with 87 per cent voting in favour of ratification.

VANCOUVER – Contract talks between Unifor and Coast Mountain Bus Company (CMBC) have broken off, and the union is now moving to secure a strike mandate from transit workers, after the employer refused to withdraw a series of concessions on contracting out, workplace safety, worker dignity and union rights. 

WATERLOO — Unifor Local 4304 members at Grand River Transit have ratified a new three-year collective agreement that delivers significant wage and benefit gains, expanded coverage for workers between the ages of 67 and 75, and stronger language to protect new transit routes from being contracted out.

WATERLOO — Unifor Local 4304 and the Region of Waterloo have reached a tentative agreement covering approximately 850 Grand River Transit workers, averting a strike that would have begun at 12:01 a.m. on May 1, 2026.