Timmins Transit workers are on strike in a demonstration of solidarity between bus service workers and drivers, a spokesperson told The Daily Press Monday afternoon.

The City of Timmins is offering a 4.5 per cent base adjustment and a three per cent wage increase to bus drivers, amounting to 7.5 per cent in the first year.

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For service workers, which the city refers to as “maintenance staff” they are offering a 1 per cent base adjustment and a 3 per cent wage increase equaling 4 per cent in the first year.

This is about twenty cents less an hour than the city’s public works labourers.

All classes of workers are being offered 3 per cent wage increase in years 2, 3, and 4 of the four-year contract.

However, the union says service workers are not maintenance staff, and

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