Rail maintenance and construction workers that service Toronto’s Union Station could walk off the job Tuesday morning.
Members of Toronto Terminals Railway are currently in negotiations, with the strike deadline of 12:01 a.m. Tuesday looming.
TTR works alongside CN, CP, Via Rail and GO Transit. The one hundred year-old company performs maintenance and construction services to the Union Station rail corridor – Canada’s busiest passenger transportation facility.
Robin Alam, spokesperson for GO Transit, says if TTR workers walk out on Tuesday, it will be “business as usual for GO Transit”.
Alam says 96 per cent of its Toronto rail commuters travel in and out of Union Station every day. And 70 per cent of all GO bus passengers travel to and from Toronto.
Representatives from Via Rail also say service disruptions are not expected in the event of a strike.
In July, members of the Canadian Auto Workers, which represents union members of TTR, voted 94 per cent in favour of possible strike action.
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