Road

Road transportation is one of Unifor’s largest sectors with over 21,500 members employed as bus drivers, in private trucking, shipping, waste and recycling, logistics as well as taxi drivers and dispatchers and couriers, among others. The largest group there is over 4,000 members who work as drivers and maintenance workers for Vancouver's public transit system. Public transit as a whole is heavily unionized in Canada.

COVID-19 Update to Local Unions

March 14, 2020

COVID-19: An important update to Unifor Locals about ongoing responses by the national union.

Fuel tanker drivers ratify new collective agreement

February 19, 2020

Workers at Trimac in Ontario have ratified a new three-year collective agreement that includes fair wage gains, improved bereavement days for extended

GRT Transit Strike

On Tuesday, January 21, members of Unifor Local 4304, Grand River Transit, initiated strike action.

Support and Solidarity for Transit Workers

Show your support for the workers that make Metro Vancouver's transit system one of the best in North America.

5,000 Unifor transit workers on strike in Metro Vancouver

November 5, 2019

Members at Unifor Locals 111 and 2200 began job action on November 1 after the employer balked at improvements to working conditions, benefits...

Vancouver’s container truckers open negotiations

August 6, 2019

Unifor has begun a new round of collective bargaining with several employers servicing Port Metro Vancouver...

Assaults on bus drivers still considered part of the job by WorkSafeBC

July 17, 2019

A disturbingly high number of transit operators are assaulted while on the job, but WorkSafeBC routinely denies compensation by claiming that it’s...

Unifor encourages participation in #CureCongestion campaign

May 23, 2019

British Columbia’s largest transit and transportation union is calling on all Metro Vancouver voters to make their voices heard in a new...

Campeau school bus drivers ratify first collective agreement

February 20, 2019

More than 200 members of Unifor Local 4268 driving school buses for Campeau Bus Lines in Whitby, Ajax, Oshawa, Clarington, Bowmanville, Peterborough..

Building solidarity across borders

November 11, 2018

More than 140 union leaders and activists from several countries gathered for the first ever North American Solidarity Project Conference.

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