STM maintenance workers give union a strike mandate

Maintenance workers at the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) voted by 98 per cent Sunday to give their union a mandate to hold a six-day strike, saying management’s latest offers threaten their work-life balance.
The Syndicat du Transport de Montréal, representing more than 2,400 employees, said it still hopes to reach a negotiated settlement, but that the employer’s position left it no choice but to take a strike vote.
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