Credit goes, too, to the Core Team. The Core Team is a group of ordinary union members, stewards, executive board members and volunteers who have been engaging transit workers like you about how we can win. Active members are the backbone of any great union, talking, building relationships, building the Union. Without our Core Team this could not have happened. It’s an everybody-in effort and it paid off. Not just for the people whose jobs are saved and their families, but for all of us to take a serious measure of our power when we stand together.

The National and International levels of our Union deserve recognition here, too. They supported our efforts with organizing, media support, video support, financial support. And moral support. Sometimes we just need somebody to say “Yes – you have it right. Keep going.”

City managers worked intensely with the Union over the past 3 weeks to pull it all together. Today the announcement went out and the job is done. A great collaborative effort!

So, let’s keep going. On to a great contract. To a great contract in Red Deer, at DATS, at St. Albert. On to having a say in Regionalization. On to continuing to build a great Union.