The TTC is reviewing its inventory procedures following the arrest of an employee in connection with the theft of copper wire.
Mike Santos, president of CUPE Local 2, which represents about 500 TTC electrical workers, has been charged with theft over $5,000 and the possession of stolen property.
He was arrested Wednesday at his Vaughan residence following the execution of a search warrant by York Region Police, working with TTC special constables.
The TTC would not say whether Santos, a full-time employee, remains on the job.
Although the TTC has inventory controls and security around some work materials, those procedures are being reviewed, said transit spokesperson Brad Ross.
“The place that it is stored, the employees that need access,… sign out the material and then we go back and check inventory,†he said. “We’re looking at our procedures right now around these kinds of products.â€
There is a market for copper wire, said Ross.
Santos is scheduled to appear in Newmarket court on July 14.
A person answering the phone at the union office Thursday said no one would comment.
CUPE Local 2 is one of three unions at the TTC. The largest is the Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 113. with about 9,000 members, including drivers and maintenance workers, and Lodge 235 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers has about 50 members.
