Metro Vancouver transit workers vote yes to new deal

• BY DAVID CARRIGG

Metro Vancouver bus drivers, mechanics and SeaBus workers voted on Thursday in favour of a new collective agreement with Coast Mountain Bus Company.

Representatives of 5,000 unionized transit workers — members of Unifor Locals 111 and 2200 — had hammered out a deal with the company in the early hours of Nov. 27 after 10 hours of talks, thereby avoiding a full-scale bus and SeaBus shutdown.

That is the deal that was voted on Thursday, with 84.3 per cent in favour of the three-year agreement.