Author: Daniel

Converting Temporary Positions to Permanent

At the City of Edmonton, permanent jobs help our members in a number of ways. Health benefits, pensions, stability. In the past year, City Administration has undertaken a Temporary and Seasonal Workforce Review that has created new permanent, full-time jobs in Waste Services and Parks and Roads Services. This is great news for our members,…

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Photo Red Light/Radar Grievance Finally Concluded

The matter of photo red lights/speeding tickets is now concluded. In 2018, the Union undertook to challenge the City for its practice of making members pay red light & speeding tickets and then issuing progressive discipline. The City challenged this practice through 3 grievance levels and into arbitration, then had to defend the Arbitrator’s award…

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ATU 569 Speaks Out Against Transit Worker Assaults

ATU has kept up the fight to achieve civilized order and eliminate violence on the Transit system. We’ve done it through lobbying, through persistent media response, television interviews, the armband “WE Deserve to be Safe” campaign and more. During the second week of September, we take our campaign up another notch, as we launch our…

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Reports to City Council

Next Tuesday, ETS Administration will deliver 3 reports to City Council’s Urban Planning Committee. The first deals with Transit Service levels and the need to ramp it up. You can read the report here: Transit Service Options The second deals with youth after school service Here: Bus Service For Youth The third deals with developer-funded…

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Lobbying Ottawa

On Wednesday, Steve Bradshaw and Jerry Gill met with Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and MPs Heather McPherson and Blake DesJarlais. Discussions centered on the high need for Ottawa to step into the difficult problem of disorder on our Transit Systems. We also spoke about the need for federal operational funding for transit systems nation…

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