In a vote yesterday, electrical workers at the Toronto Transit Commission delivered an unequivocal message when they voted 99.3 percent in favour of strike action if the employer does not return to the bargaining table with a reasonable proposal.
For more than a decade, TTC workers had been deemed an essential service akin to firefighters or police and denied the right to strike. Last summer, courts overturned that decision and restored to TTC workers the same rights enjoyed by all other public transit workers in the country.
