To protect frontline workers, resolve recruitment crises, and ensure high standards of public safety across British Columbia’s transit network, decision-makers should adopt a worker-centered policy framework: 

1. Ban Contracting Out of Transit Operations: Implement an immediate legislative and policy moratorium on outsourcing public transit driving, maintenance, and support services to private third-party contractors.
2. Mandate Strong Fair-Wage and Labour Standards: Ensure that any interim public procurement or operational agreement enforces strict fair-wage policies, full-time employment guarantees, robust health and safety protections, and respect for collective bargaining rights.
3. Invest in Workforce Development and Retention: Partner with transit unions, training institutions, and provincial agencies to fund comprehensive apprenticeship, recruitment, and retention programs that establish public transit as a stable, career-path industry across British Columbia.

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