HSR ON STRIKE: Bus drivers, staff hit the picket line early Thursday The union is planning a news conference during a strike picket at the downtown HSR terminal Updated Nov. 9, 2023 at 12:57 p.m.

That would equate to a salary of $79,726 in the final year of the agreement (2026), the city says. The city says 14.2 million riders took HSR between January and September this year.

The city confirmed that they were talking with the transit union again late on the seventh day of the HSR bus strike, which is Hamilton’s first in 25 years.

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Tuck said in the media release "that it is extremely difficult to hire and retain new transit workers when the wages do not keep pace with the economic times, and when neighbouring transit ...

If the union’s 900-or-so bus drivers and other HSR workers hit the picket line Thursday it would mark Hamilton’s first transit strike since before amalgamation.