CUPE workers begin full-scale strike, halting bus service across B.C.’s Fraser Valley

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. — Bus service across most of B.C.’s Fraser Valley, from Abbotsford to Hope, has been halted by a strike.
More than 200 members of CUPE Local 561 walked off the job, affecting all bus service in Abbotsford, Mission, Agassiz-Harrison, Chilliwack and Hope, although essential HandiDart trips can still be booked.
The union says its members, who work for a company that contracts service to BC Transit, have no pension and make 32 per cent less than bus drivers and other sta