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Nearly 56 per cent of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 615 members voted to accept the City of Saskatoon’s offer, which includes a 10 per cent wage increase to workers who have been with Saskatoon Transit for at least four years.

The offer included lump-sum retroactive pay.

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The transit union withdrew its work-to-rule and ban on overtime, effective immediately.

City Manager Murray Totland released a statement Tuesday evening praising the union’s decision.

“We are very happy to have a contract agreement with the Transit union,” Totland said.

The statement goes on to thank transit workers for their patience and stresses the need to work together on “drawing the new roadmap for public transit in our community.”

“The new contract comes at a very appropriate time,” the statement said.

City council will vote on whether to accept the deal Thursday.

The decision ends four years of tension between the union and the city over the transit workers’ pension plan. The pension plan was offered to eight other city workers’ unions, all of which accepted.