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    1. Management

    Statement of ATU Local 113: TTC Workers Remove Union President After Failed Breakaway Attempt

    Feb. 6, 2017
    On February 6 members of Local 113 of the Amalgamated Transit Union moved to restore union democracy following a unilateral attempt by suspended president Bob Kinnear to remove the Local from its 120 year-old union.
    Related To: Amalgamated Transit Union
    On February 6 members of Local 113 of the Amalgamated Transit Union moved to restore union democracy following a unilateral attempt by suspended president Bob Kinnear to remove the local from its 120-year-old union. Kinnear’s secretive effort to split Local 113 away from its fellow ATU Canada locals was done without the members’ knowledge or consent or that of its executive board. Because his actions represent a clear violation of the union’s constitution and general laws, the international union has placed the local in temporary trusteeship.
     
    The union, a Canadian and American international union based at the Tommy Douglas Center in Maryland, represents 200,000 members in Canada and the U.S. The trusteeship is led by former Local 113 Executive Vice President Manny Sforza, who has appointed other officers of Local 113 elected by its members to assist him during the trusteeship

    The purpose of the trusteeship is to restore democratic procedures and assure continuous representation of the 10,000 members, mostly TTC employees. The trustee will be communicating directly with the members and the public in the coming hours and days and is committed to continuing the 120-year-long tradition of serving ATU Local 113 members in Ontario.