Metro and bus service will be constrained to rush hour only for nearly the entire month of November, Quebec’s labour tribunal ruled on Wednesday — if no deal is reached between the STM and its maintenance workers.
The union, the Syndicat du transport de Montréal, which represents 2,400 maintenance employees at the Société de transport de Montréal (STM), has announced its intention to strike for four weeks beginning Friday, Oct. 31 at 10 p.m.
The union has already gone on strike twice so far this year.
This threatened strike is longer than the last two. It will last until Nov. 28 at 10 p.m.
The STM had asked the labour tribunal to have the striking workers maintain regular service on Sunday, Nov. 2, for the municipal election, but in a decision delivered Wednesday, the tribunal made no exception.
The tribunal officially authorized the union to strike for the entire four weeks and said only rush-hour service would be kept during that entire period, but paratransit services will be fully maintained.
Strike hours
Buses will run normally during the strike from 6:15 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. and again from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Night bus service will run from 11:15 p.m. to 1:15 a.m.
For Metros, they will run normally from 6:30 a.m. to 9:40 a.m and again from 2:45 p.m. to 5:50 p.m.
Night Metro service will run from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m.
