SEABUS EMPLOYEES leave a meeting inside the docked Burrard Otter
ferry after walking off the job Wednesday afternoon to protest a decision
from the labor relations board. requiring the 6S International
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers members join the Amalgamated

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ROW OVER UNION CHANGE

“Disgruntled: : SeaBus. employees returned to

work Thursday ‘after

Staging: a 24-hour wildcat

strike which forced 2,500 stranded North Shore
passengers to make: other travel arrangements.

However _ the -.. Metro
Transit Operating Co. put on
extra buses during evening
and morning rush hours and
managed to accomodate

almost all of the 10,000.

commuters
Burrard Inlet.

SeaBus Captain Jack
Parker said the public was
“very understanding and
sympathetic more than
anything.” Officials fielded
calls from the public
Thursday until the SeaBus
was back in operation at 1:45
p.m..

Although MTOC officials
applied to the Labor
Relations Board for a cease

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dnd desist.order to force the
65 employees to return to
work, it was not granted.

The. International
Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers returned to their
jobs because the LRB agreed
to hear an appeal on an
earlier decision that said
they should be transferred to
the Amalgamated Transit
said Al Cooley,
Local 258 assistance
business agent.

It was the ruling by LRB

vice-president Gabriel
Somjen that sparked the
illegal walkout, he said.

Metro began taking over
transit services from B.C.
Hydro in ‘April, 1980.
SeaBus workers were
scheduled to become Metro
employees early June, but
they are not one of~ the
unions MTOC bargains with,
explained Metro spokesman
Bill Ellwyn.

The ATU is the certified
bargaining agent for Metro's
3,000 bus drivers. The ruling
came after Metro applied to
the board to have SeaBus
employces transferred. .

“The electrical workers is
not a union that Metro has
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