{"id":773269,"date":"2026-07-01T12:38:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/773269\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T12:38:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:38:24","slug":"metro-vancouver-bus-drivers-vote-to-reject-tentative-labour-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/773269\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro Vancouver bus drivers vote to reject tentative labour deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Metro\u00a0Vancouver\u00a0transit bus operators have voted to reject a tentative deal their union had reached with the Coast Mountain Bus Company.<\/p>\n<p>Unifor Locals 111 and 2200 say in a statement that members are &#8220;not rushing to job action&#8221; after the rejection and the unions will work on the changes their members want to see in the tentative agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Gavin McGarrigle, Unifor&#8217;s western regional director, says it is working directly with members, negotiators and the employer in an effort to &#8220;win the changes&#8221; that bus operators want.<\/p>\n<p>The voting results have not been released.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides had announced on June 22 that a tentative deal has been reached to avoid a possible strike involving member workers of Coast Mountain, which operates more than 96 per cent of Metro Vancouver&#8217;s bus services.<\/p>\n<p>The workers had voted 99 per cent in favour of authorizing strike action in May after months of bargaining.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Members delivered a strong strike mandate earlier this round, and that mandate remains in place,&#8221; McGarrigle says in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"A man with a thin beard and wearing a grey suit jacket speaks in front of a red banner.\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1782909504_64_default.jpg\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5001201056930098\" data-cy=\"image-img\"\/>Gavin McGarrigle of Unifor says the strike mandate is still in effect. (Ben Nelms\/CBC)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-773269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}