Picket lines will be going up at McMaster University in Hamilton on Monday morning after CUPE local 3906 rejected the university’s latest contract offer for teaching assistants and research assistants.

The university says the union also rejected a request to take the offer to the union membership for a vote.

What the university called it’s “best offer” included increased pay rates for graduate teaching assistants and research assistants to $39.40 an hour over the two-year term of the contract.

The university says the union’s refusal to put the offer to a membership vote isn’t fair to union members or students who will be impacted by a strike.

McMaster says classes will continue though some schedules could be changed.

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HandyDart workers in Metro Vancouver have voted overwhelmingly in favour of rejecting a final offer from their employer that would have ended job action.

The strike is stretching into its second week, leaving thousands of people who rely on the service stranded.

The HandyDart service provides door-to-door public transit around B.C. for people with mobility impairments, but the dispute applies only to union workers in the Metro Vancouver area.

On Friday, HandyDart workers voted 409 to 24 against the offer from their employer, MVT Canadian Bus.

Zdenka Buric, who speaks for MVT Canadian Bus, said the company is disappointed the majority of employees turned down to its last offer.

Buric said it’s now up to the union to get talks back on track.

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