"They provide the transportation and mobility for other essential workers to actually get to their jobs," said Gower. Union pleasedThe Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) has been pushing governments to prioritize transit workers in their vaccination plans, but says it has received little response. Our transit workers right now are scared not only for themselves, but for their families as well as the transit riders and essential workers that they transport every day. "Our transit workers right now are scared not only for themselves, but for their families as well as the transit riders and essential workers that they transport every day." Transit workers fall into the second group, and should be vaccinated by the end of June.

Source: CBC News April 21, 2021 20:15 UTC