Canada Line workers have voted 95% in favour of strike action but do not yet have plans to disrupt service.
Were any disruption to occur in the future, it would only affect the Canada Line and not other SkyTrain lines or the buses.
Canada Line workers voted to have the British Columbia Government and Service Employees’ Union (BCGEU) represent them in August 2009.
Since then, the BCGEU has held contract discussions with employer ProTrans BC but failed to get a first collective agreement.
“The bargaining committee felt it was time to do the traditional thing: test the temperature of the members and see what support they had at the table,” BCGEU spokesperson Brian Gardiner told Business in Vancouver on Thursday.
The 180 members voted Tuesday and Wednesday and Gardiner released the results Thursday.
“We’re looking to sit down with the employer in the next couple weeks and hammer out an agreement,” Gardiner said.
“We’re not even speculating about down the road. Our main goal right now is to get a message to the employer about how important the members consider the bargaining.”