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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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. .

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