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Winnipeg Bus Drivers Demand Safety Shields | Winnipeg News
Winnipeg Transit drivers are demanding full safety shields after a harrowing incident where a passenger threatened a driver with a hatchet at the St. Vital terminal—police intervened, but the rookie driver is now on leave. Over 60 drivers are currently on stress leave due to trauma and injuries, totaling more than 30,000 lost workdays. Union leaders argue that Workers’ Comp costs could fund full shields in just two years, while assaults on transit workers have surged from 104 last year to 42 so far this year—blamed on rising addiction and poverty. Though the city allocated $2.7 million for a…
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