Our Coalition partners CSU52 are pushed to the limit. What happens to them WILL affect our negotiations. We must support their efforts to achieve a fair deal. In a bold response to the City of Edmonton and Edmonton Public Library’s lack of movement in negotiating a fair deal, Civic Service Union 52 (CSU52) has called…

What’s It All About? You may have noticed a poster hanging in all of our workplaces. It’s heading Reads “NOTICE TO EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEES”. It talks about our application to the Labour Board to terminate the DATS Certificate and move the DATS Operators into the main agreement. This is pursuant to our agreement with the…

In a narrow vote count released earlier today, Strathcona County Transit (STC) Operators have chosen to join ATU Local 569. About a hundred STC workers are now effectively ATU members, attracting the same member benefits as all of us. If you see them operating a bus on Edmonton’s streets, please give them a friendly wave….

ATU Scholarship Competition for the 2024-2025 Academic Year in Memory of International President Emeritus James La Sala This year’s scholarships are in remembrance of former International President Emeritus James La Sala, who passed away on October 8, 2022. La Sala began his career in the transit industry as a bus operator for the Public Service Coordinated Transport…

In response to record high absenteeism and after consultations with ATU Local 569, Edmonton Transit will begin placing Operator-trained people from senior positions into the driver’s seats of buses. What, exactly does this mean? When Dispatch has completely run out of regular operators and service has to be cancelled, they may a place Dispatcher, Inspector,…

More than a quarter century ago, DATS drivers came together to form a union. It was said it couldn’t be done, that these were independent contractors, not employees. But, DATS operators were determined to battle their way out of what their lawyer characterized as a “job ghetto”. The Labour Relations Board was convinced that these…