{"id":3638,"date":"2008-09-25T00:49:26","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T04:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/09\/25\/viva-on-strike-at-4am\/"},"modified":"2008-09-25T00:49:26","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T04:49:26","slug":"viva-on-strike-at-4am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/09\/25\/viva-on-strike-at-4am\/","title":{"rendered":"Viva on Strike at 4AM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1004\/856189388_564ee13655.jpg?v=0\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our York Region readers will have a sunny day to take a long bike ride or gridlocked drive around the GTA as Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113 will go on strike at 4AM tonight. We would like to hear from Yorksters about their strike experiences &#8212; how do you get around if you rely on the bus? For those of us living &amp; working in the city centre (that is, within the old City of Toronto borders) it is relatively easy to get around using active transportation options. In York, where nodes are much more spread out, these options are fewer. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/News\/GTA\/article\/505536\">From The Star<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A temporary reprieve for about 35,000 York region commuters who rely on Viva rapid bus service was yanked off the table tonight after its drivers voted to strike early Thursday morning. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We are a democratic union and our members have spoken,&#8221; said Bob Kinnear, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113, in a statement released Wednesday night after drivers rejected a tentative settlement forged last weekend with Veolia Transportation Inc., the private company that runs the service for York Region.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Veolia management knew that the strike would begin (Thursday) if their offer was turned down and I have informed them of the results of the vote,&#8221; he said. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Viva&#8217;s drivers, about 160 of them, were set to walk off the job at 4 a.m. Thursday after 61 per cent of union members voted against the deal, Kinnear said. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wyliepoon\/\">wyliepoon<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our York Region readers will have a sunny day to take a long bike ride or gridlocked drive around the GTA as Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113 will go on strike at 4AM tonight. We would like to hear from Yorksters about their strike experiences &#8212; how do you get around if you rely on<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/09\/25\/viva-on-strike-at-4am\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Viva on Strike at 4AM&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10385,8690,2349,475,405,19,10384,496],"class_list":["post-3638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transit","tag-active-transportation-options","tag-amalgamated-transit-union-local-113","tag-bob-kinnear","tag-president","tag-the-star","tag-toronto","tag-veolia-transportation-inc","tag-york"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Viva on Strike at 4AM - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/09\/25\/viva-on-strike-at-4am\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Viva on Strike at 4AM - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Our York Region readers will have a sunny day to take a long bike ride or gridlocked drive around the GTA as Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113 will go on strike at 4AM tonight. 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