By Patrick Dare, Cassandra Drudi, Thulasi Srikanthan and Jake Rupert
(excerpted from the Ottawa Citizen, January 9, 2009)
OTTAWA – Members of the city’s largest transit union rejected the latest contract offer nearly three-to-one, in vote results revealed late Thursday.
“We knew our membership would support our recommendation,” said Jim Haddad, secretary-treasurer of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 279, whose leaders advised 2,300 striking OC Transpo workers to reject the offer. “We’re ready to go back to the table. Hopefully, they’ll negotiate properly now with us instead of bargaining through the media.”
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