The STM’s 4,500 bus drivers and metro operators are indeed considering a strike “as a last resort,” having not walked off the job in nearly 40 years.

The last strike by bus drivers and metro operators at the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) dates back to 1987. Maintenance employees have walked off the job twice this year.

In an interview Wednesday, Frédéric Therrien, president of the affected local of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), affiliated with the FTQ, stated that currently, “we would be the lowest-paid drivers in a major city in Quebec, if you look at Longueuil, Laval, or Quebec City.

“We would be the lowest-paid, and we find it makes no sense,” he said.

On Tuesday, the union launched a billboard campaign warning the public: “Buses and metro soon on strike. T

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