Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Transit strike at least temporarily averted on South Coast

MTD

The Santa Barbara MTD and Teamsters agreed to a one-month contract extension.

A potential transit strike on the South Coast has been averted, at least temporarily. Santa Barbara MTD and Teamsters Local 186, which represents transit company employees, have agreed to a one-month contract extension.

The original contract expired at midnight Monday, but both sides agreed to a one-day extension until midnight Tuesday. Tuesday night, MTD officials announced an agreement to extend the contract through July, keeping the buses rolling.

The union members had authorized a strike.

MTD officials have given the Teamsters a state-mediated proposed agreement, and they say they expect union officials to take it to their members for a vote.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.