The union representing more than 180 transit workers in the Lower Mainland has issued a 72-hour strike notice.
CUPE Local 4500 represents workers employed by the Coast Mountain Bus Company (CMBC), which runs transit operations for all of Metro Vancouver.
The notice is effective at 8 a.m. local time on Wednesday.
The union says it is still available to negotiate a collective agreement that avoids service disruptions.
CUPE Local 4500, representing more than 180 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LowerMainland?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LowerMainland</a> transit workers employed by the Coast Mountain Bus Company, has served 72-hour strike notice following a long day of mediation with no progress. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/canlab?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#canlab</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/bcpoli?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#bcpoli</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Vancouver?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Vancouver</a> <a href="https://t.co/y1MGYWO6w7">https://t.co/y1MGYWO6w7</a>
—@CUPEBCIt says job action could begin at 8 a.m. on Saturday with an overtime ban that would affect all operations in the Coast Mountain system.
The union says the last collective agreement expired at the end of 2022 and bargaining didn't start until this past October.
Members voted 100 per cent in favour of a strike mandate last month.
"We regard job action as the last resort in our effort to reach a fair deal, but we don't see an alternative," Chris Gindhu, president of CUPE Local 4500, said in a statement. "To date, Coast Mountain has been unwilling to address our key issues."
Michael McDaniel, the president of Coast Mountain, said in a statement that the employer does not anticipate the union's potential overtime ban to impact transit services at this time.
"[Coast Mountain] has offered CUPE Local 4500 the same general wage increase that was already agreed to by all other CMBC employees," he said. "This offer is consistent with other public sector settlements in British Columbia.
"We urge the union to return to the bargaining table to finalize a deal."
The union represents transit supervisors, engineers and a range of maintenance workers within Metro Vancouver's transit system.
The proposed strike by transit workers comes on the heels of a historic year for labour action in B.C. and Canada.
Transit workers in the Comox Valley went on strike in December, following a four-month drivers' strike in the Fraser Valley over the summer.
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