TORONTO — GO bus service has resumed at Toronto's Union Station after being diverted to other transit hubs Tuesday for the fourth consecutive day due to ongoing labour action.
Ninety-five workers with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers walked off the job last Wednesday after the union and Toronto Terminals Railway failed to reach an agreement.
The striking employees are signals and communication workers as well as train movement directors at Canada's busiest transit hub.
Suniya Kukaswadia, a spokesperson for the transit agency Metrolinx, said protesters gathered at 10 a.m. Tuesday and restricted GO buses' access to the terminal.
She said the demonstration did not affect train service.
GO Transit tweeted late Tuesday that service for several bus routes had resumed at 11:30 p.m.
A similar protest blocked access to the bus terminal Monday.
Union members have been demonstrating in front of the bus terminal on and off since Saturday.
Metrolinx, which operates GO Transit, has said the workers started protesting Saturday afternoon and left a short while later, but then returned in the evening when people were heading home from the Toronto Raptors game.
The protest resumed at 11 a.m. on Sunday and disrupted bus service until 11:30 p.m., the agency has said.
Metrolinx said the disruption impacted thousands of transit riders and hundreds of buses.
The union has said its Union Station employees "eagerly await a worthwhile negotiated settlement" so they can return to their positions and continue to operate GO trains, Via Rail trains and the Union Pearson Express every day.
The workers have been without a new contract since December 2019.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 26, 2022.
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