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A source familiar with TTC contract negotiations has told Spacing that the proposed contract voted on by ATU Local 113 members on Friday had no new language on contracting out work currently done by unionized workers.<\/p>\n
The source speculated that the No vote was due to deep divisions within the union executive that is rooted in Local 113 President Bob Kinnear’s election from the floor of the union convention, instead of as an establishment candidate.<\/p>\n
As described to Spacing, the talk among disgruntled rank-and-file members is that the maintenance work currently covered by warranty, but done by TTC workers and covered financially by the manufacturer, might be taken from TTC workers and given to workers making less at the manufacturer’s plant.<\/p>\n
However, this is not in any way, shape or form the case, according to our source.<\/p>\n
Instead, Spacing is told that TTC management takes great pride in the fact that a private sector company finds it less expensive to use TTC workers to do warranty maintenace than their own mechanics.<\/p>\n
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