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By Doug Collins/Global News

SKY TRAIN

All clear on SkyTrain as strike averted with last minute deal

Dec 10, 2019 | 5:29 AM

VANCOUVER — Good news for Metro Vancouver commuters: unionized SkyTrain workers and their employer have cut a tentative agreement, meaning trains will run today (Tues, Dec 10).

CUPE 7000, which represents 900 SkyTrain workers, had threatened to walk off the job at 5 a.m. for three days if they couldn’t reach a deal with TransLink subsidiary the BC Rapid Transity Company (BCRTC).

That proved to be unnecessary as the two sides reached a breakthrough after a marathon 18-hour bargaining session, just minutes before the strike would have taken effect.

CUPE 7000 president Tony Rebelo acknowledged that there would be some SkyTrain delays Tuesday morning as the system got up to speed.

The details of the deal have not been made public, and still need to be ratified by the union’s members.

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