Here’s a little heads-up for all ETS Main & DATS members: The deadline for submitting healthcare expenses incurred in 2021 is April 30, 2022. This means that, if you have not submitted receipts for healthcare services you paid for in 2021 by the end of April, they will not be honored. If you don’t have…

After a double dose of good news, ETS is moving toward assumption of full service by March 20/22. The good news? The number of COVID cases among our membership is radically down in the past 2 weeks and ridership numbers have spiked to nearly 70% of pre-COVID levels. It’s great news for everybody involved in…

In a private vote today, Red Deer City Council ratified the Memorandum of Agreement between the City and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 569. The vote marks the conclusion of negotiations between he parties and sets up a 2-year deal that ends on December 31, 2022. Negotiations for a new agreement will commence late this fall…

OTTAWA – ATU Canada is encouraged by the announcement of $750 million in emergency transit funding made yesterday by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland but calls this a “band aid solution” and says more is needed for future funding crises likely to face public transit. The announcement came with two caveats; however, that provinces match the federal…

ATU Local 569 is pleased to announce the official creation of a brand new bargaining unit: Edmonton on Demand operators today voted 60 to 12 to join our union. WELCOME Sisters and Brothers of EOD. The work that the City contracted out has now come back home. To the veteran members of ATU 569: when…

Many of us are hurting right now. We are tired and frustrated. We are fearful and sad. Many of us are fed up.   As I write this, I am being told that trucks are arriving at City Hall in Edmonton. Even as we have kept pitching in to help each other through our second…