The strike by the 2,400 maintenance workers had limited bus and subway service in Montreal to peak hours and late evenings.

Montreal’s public transit network is gradually returning to normal after the union representing maintenance workers decided late Tuesday to suspend their strike.

The change comes as Labour Minister Jean Boulet tables legislation that would grant the provincial government greater power to intervene and end strikes.

Union president Bruno Jeannotte says the workers have lost an important lever with the tabling of the bill, but he says they aren’t giving up.

Montreal transit strike could put Quebec’s new labour law to the test

The strike by the 2,400 maintenance workers had limited bus and subway service in Montreal to peak hours and late evenings. It was originally

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