NEWS RELEASE

City of Ottawa

OC Transpo

For Immediate Release
January 28, 2003

Business as usual at OC Transpo - Union to vote on City's offer

Ottawa -  Transit services will operate on a regular schedule tomorrow as the Union representing bus and O-train drivers, mechanics and other transit workers, tonight agreed to take the City’s final contract offer to a vote of its membership.

“We are confident that the membership will see this final offer as fair to them as transit employees, responsive to transit customers and reasonable for taxpayers,” said Rosemarie Leclair, General Manager, Transportation Utilities and Public Works.

In keeping with the negotiation process, no details of the offer will be released at this time.

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