A Moncton woman says the ongoing transit lockout has cost her her job.
Lisa Nice spent the day Thursday handing out resumes, which she says is a direct result of the Codiac Transpo lockout.
“I've actually had to quit my job and I'm looking for another one, hopefully which is closer to where I live so I'm not walking,” says Nice.
Now the mayor is asking the Amalgamated Transit Union to allow its members to vote on the city’s latest offer, which he believes could end the lockout.
Moncton Mayor George LeBlanc says he’s sympathetic to the effect the dispute has had on his constituents and is encouraging the union to have another look at the city’s latest offer.
“We've got an agreement to December 31, 2017,” says LeBlanc. “We can figure out 2018, we have five years to get that done.”
Codiac Transpo employees have been without a contract since December 2010 and were locked out by the city in June.
The two sides were close to a deal on a couple of occasions before talks broke off.
LeBlanc says the two sides are too close to give up now.
“I don't want to go there right now,” says LeBlanc. “In fact, I don't want to go there at all. I'd like to get this resolved. I'd like to get the buses back on the street today, tomorrow, this week.”
The Amalgamated Transit Union did not return calls to CTV News.
LeBlanc says the keys to a new contract are in the ignition and they just need the union to turn them.
With files from CTV Atlantic's Jonathan MacInnis
