HRM rejects transit union's latest proposal
CBC News
Posted: Feb 29, 2012 6:07 PM AT
Last Updated: Feb 29, 2012 7:33 PM AT
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Metro Transit director Eddie Robar and Mayor Peter Kelly on Friday. (CBC)The Halifax Regional Municipality says it doesn't accept the Amalgamated Transit Union's emailed proposal as a counter offer.
The union presented what it called a counter proposal on Monday to Eddie Robar, Metro Transit's director.
The final offer from HRM included a salary increase of nine per cent over five years and a signing bonus of $1,500.
It also gave Metro Transit more control over scheduling.
Ken Wilson, president of ATU local 508, said Friday the union wasn't satisfied with the language written in management's most recent offer about rostering-style scheduling.
Mayor Peter Kelly has said the last offer from HRM would be the final one. It was rejected Friday by the union with a 78 per cent margin.
Wilson was told Wednesday that HRM's final proposal will remain in place until 11:59 p.m. on Friday.
“Mr. Wilson indicated that the union would accept HRM’s latest wage offer, but he did not accept a rostered approach to scheduling that would help Metro Transit achieve the efficiencies needed to meet the proposed wage model,” Kelly said in a news release Wednesday.
“It’s part and parcel and we can’t proceed with one without the other.”
Metro Transit employees walked off the job Feb. 2.
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