Montreal Transit Strike To Disrupt Metro, Bus Service During Election Day - Beritaja

Metro and autobus work in Montreal will beryllium disrupted about each time this November owed to a transit strike, pinch municipal predetermination time this Sunday being nary exception.

It was already known about 2,400 attraction workers would beryllium connected onslaught betwixt Oct. 31 and Nov. 28 — but up until precocious it wasn’t known to what grade nationalist transit would beryllium disrupted.

In a determination rendered Wednesday, Quebec’s labour tribunal ruled metros and buses will only beryllium disposable during unreserved hours passim each time of the strike.

This wasn’t the lawsuit during the transit workers’ past onslaught successful September and October, erstwhile it had ruled work would still beryllium disposable during accustomed hours each Tuesday, Thursday and during weekends.

The transit agency successful the metropolis had requested work beryllium extended connected predetermination time to guarantee arsenic galore voters arsenic imaginable could get to the polls, unfastened betwixt 10 a.m. and 8 p.m., but the labour tribunal didn’t agree.

In his decision, administrative judge François Beaubien emphasized the tribunal’s domiciled isn’t to measurement the correct to onslaught against citizens’ correct to vote, but alternatively to guarantee the population’s wellness and information isn’t endangered by onslaught action.