Union Colludes With Ontario Liberals to Strip Toronto Transit Workers of Their Right to Strike http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/mar2011/cana-m10.shtml

Bob Kinnear, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 113, which represents TTC workers, set the tone for the union officialdom’s capitulation last month when he wrote to transit management to promise that his union would voluntarily forgo its right to strike in the current contract negotiations...“We will act as if an essential service law was already in effect...This will effectively give the mayor what he wants but will also allow for more consultation than he has been so far willing to give.”