Pickets hold up DriveTest ‘traffic’
The president of United Steelworkers Local 9511 is at a loss to explain why DriveTest opened its Chatham office Monday.
“I wish I knew the answer to that question,” said Jim Wilson. “If you find out let me know.”
Wilson said there are DriveTest locations across the province that serve a much larger population base than the Chatham location.
Chatham is the latest of eight driver examiner offices to be opened across the province during a 14-week-long strike.
Natalie Maier, owner of Four Seasons Driver Education in Chatham and Tilbury, is convinced she knows the answer.
Maier said it’s DriveTest’s way of “trying to appease us for launching the bus service to Toronto for G-1 students.”
Maier organized a provincewide rally in Toronto yesterday against the strike and spoke at Queen’s Park.
Maier, in prepared remarks given to The Daily News, planned to tell politicians the strike has gone on “way too long.
