The Canadian Union of Public Employees says seven employees who work for the Tri-Board Student Transportation Services are set to walk off the job in a legal strike on April 3 if their proposal for a fair wage increase is not accepted.
The seven employees are members of CUPE Local 1479 with six of them working as transportation planners.
“Right now, Tri-Board workers are the lowest paid of similar transportation planners across the province, earning 19% below the average,” said Liz James, CUPE Local 1479 President, in a press release.
“Our transportation planners organize safe, reliable, and efficient transportation to and from school for more than 30,000 students, over 600 vehicles, covering a geographical area of over 16,000 square kilometres. Their work is valuable and yet they are being paid 19% less than the going rate for it.”
Tri-Board is a transportation consortium that is jointly controlled by the Algonquin and Lakeshore Catholic District School Board, Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board and Limestone District School Board.
More on CUPE’s requests can be found here.
