Santa Barbara MTD employees, including drivers, may go on strike as soon as Friday as their contract expires on July 31, 2025.
MTD and Teamsters Local 186 (Teamsters), which represents MTD’s bus operators, operations supervisors, and maintenance employees, are continuing mediations.
Bargaining has been underway since May 6, 2025. At the end of June, both groups agreed to a one-month contract extension, allowing bus service to continue to operate normally for the month of July. Now that agreement expires at midnight on Thursday…