Although inflation is officially running at over 7 percent, the ATU bureaucrats have accepted an agreement that would impose a 1 percent annual pay cap for Go bus workers.
Pilots in Chile voted by 99 percent to authorize a strike to restore concessions given up by their union during the pandemic, while professors and support staff at Metropolitan Technological Institute in Colombia have struck over drastic budget cuts.
The bus transit workers’ strike on Monday morning joined with 55,000 provincial education workers who walked out last Friday after the Ford government attempted to force another massive concessions contract on these low-paid workers.