STM aims to reach agreements by Nov. 15 to end bus, Metro strike

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· Posted: Nov 07, 2025 4:00 AM EST | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

The Société de Transport de Montréal (STM) is aiming to scope agreements with the unions for autobus drivers and attraction workers by Nov. 15, successful bid to enactment an extremity to the month-long strike.

After a week of nationalist transit strikes, the STM held a quality league connected Friday greeting to supply an update connected the ongoing declaration disputes with some the attraction workers' national and the national representing autobus drivers, operators, and presumption agents.

STM CEO Marie-Claude Léonard said that Montreal's caller mayor, Soraya Martinez Ferrada, wants each labour disputes to beryllium resolved by Nov. 15. 

Léonard is asking organizations affected by the onslaught to constitute to the Tribunal administratif du travail (TAT), detailing the interaction the deficiency of work has connected them and plead the lawsuit for further service. 

“As usual, it is the TAT, Tribunal administratif du travail, that volition specify the level of service. But we volition support our clients due to the fact that for us, 2 days without work is unacceptable,” Léonard said. 

Two abstracted strikes took spot this month, 1 of which is ongoing.

WATCH | STM provides update connected negotiations with workers:

At 10 p.m. connected Oct. 31, attraction workers with the Syndicat du Transport de Montréal launched a month-long onslaught — its 3rd onslaught successful 2025.

Barring a last-minute deal, this would people its longest onslaught this year, with the different 2 lasting 9 days successful June and 14 days successful September.

The remaining sticking points see wage increases and outsourcing. The STM has reiterated connected aggregate occasions that it was successful an unprecedented fiscal situation.

Last Saturday, the national representing autobus drivers, Metro operators and presumption agents unopen down each Metro and autobus service, but adapted transit, arsenic portion of a 24-hour strike.

This marked the union's archetypal onslaught successful 38 years.

But connected Wednesday night, it sent the STM a onslaught announcement for Nov. 15 and 16 — which could beryllium averted if there's advancement astatine the dialog table.

Talks with autobus drivers' national advancing

Negotiations with the autobus drivers' national are progressing according to Léonard and STM nationalist affairs manager Katherine Roux Groleau. 

A mediator joined discussions with the drivers connected Monday, says Roux Groleau. 

The STM leaders are hopeful that the nationalist transit work tin scope an statement with the autobus drivers’ national by the Nov. 15 deadline and debar 2 consecutive days of strikes. 

But negotiations with the attraction workers' national inactive beryllium to beryllium a challenge.

'We request to enactment together,' says STM nationalist affairs manager

A mediator has asked the STM and the attraction workers’ national to reconvene adjacent Wednesday.

If the 2 parties are incapable to find communal crushed by Nov. 15 portion respecting the nationalist transit’s fiscal framework, the STM volition petition arbitration, Roux Groleau said. 

“The politician has said it herself. There volition beryllium nary further money, truthful we request to enactment unneurotic to find solutions,”  Roux Groleau said. 

The nationalist affairs manager said that modernizing moving conditions remains 1 of the sticking points of the discussions with attraction workers. But that isn't the lawsuit for autobus drivers. 

“I deliberation drivers are mode up of the crippled connected that front. They’re consenting to enactment with america to find cost-saving measures to get to their desired model and summation salaries and wages,” she said. 

A driblet successful income of Zone A monthly passes successful November

Bruno Jeannotte, president of the Syndicat du transport de Montréal-CSN — the national representing the 2,400 STM attraction workers connected onslaught — said successful a connection that the STM is waiting for arbitration and for the labour curate to use Bill 89.

The instrumentality allows the authorities to support services that it considers important to the well-being of the colonisation successful the lawsuit of a onslaught oregon a lockout.  But it lone comes into effect connected Nov. 30.

"There is lone 1 crushed wherefore we inactive don't person an statement and wherefore the onslaught continues, and that is the STM's stubborness," Jeannotte said successful the connection published Friday.

"In the mediate of a onslaught that is having large impacts, the STM continues to privation to springiness america salaries good beneath those of comparable positions and to unfastened the doorway wide to subcontracting."

As of Nov. 4, the STM recorded 100, 731 income of monthly Zone A passes for November — little than fractional of the fig of monthly November passes sold by Nov. 4, 2024, according to the Autorité régionale de transport métropolitain.

Bus and Metro work reduced during attraction workers' onslaught

It is present up to Quebec's labour tribunal to determine whether the level of indispensable services proposed by the national during different imaginable onslaught is capable to debar endangering the wellness oregon information of the population.

The national has been asking for amended schedules and the extremity of unpaid work.

During the attraction workers' November strike, autobus and Metro work volition beryllium reduced all week and confined to the pursuing hours to meet rush hour needs:

Bus service:

• From 6:15 a.m. to 9:15 a.m.
• From 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
• From 11:15 p.m. to 1:15 a.m.

Most buses departing earlier the scheduled extremity of work volition implicit their trips, says the STM.

Metro service:

• From 6:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
• From 2:45 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
• From 11 p.m. until the Metro's accustomed closing time.

Metro stations volition adjacent gradually arsenic the past bid passes, says the STM.