Toronto’s transit workers union (ATU Local 113) and the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) have reached a tentative agreement, avoiding a city-wide transit shutdown. Contract negotiations focused on wages, benefits, job security, and protections against job outsourcing and service transfers. A strike would have paralyzed Toronto, Canada’s largest city, halting subways, streetcars, and buses. The last TTC strike in 2008 lasted less than two days before the provincial government intervened.