One day after the city served Saskatoon’s transit union a 48-hour lockout notice, the two sides have yet to reach a deal.

Busses in the city could come to a halt starting Saturday night if the two sides can’t reach an agreement.

“I really hope they reach an agreement before that because if it lasts after the weekend, it’s going to suck,” said transit rider Camille Carey.

The city filed a lockout notice to the Amalgamated Transit Union 615, which represents the city’s bus drivers, Thursday. The notice came after 11 months of failed contract negotiations and the union’s recent rejection of the city’s final contract offer.

The two sides were scheduled to meet Friday morning.

Ninety per cent of Saskatoon Transit union members rejected the city’s most recent contract offer last month. The offer included a 10 per cent wage increase over four years, retroactive back to January 2013, but also proposed changes to the defined pension plan.

The changes included an increase in contribution rates and changes to how earnings are calculated — changes the union said they’re not prepared to accept.

Mayor Don Atchison said Friday he just wants the two sides to reach a deal.

“We just want to sign a contract and we want to do it as quick as possible, and hopefully we have a positive outcome as soon as possible,” he said.

City council will discuss the pension issues at a special meeting Monday, the city solicitor wrote in an email. Passing a bylaw to implement pension changes for all city unions will be on the agenda, the email read.

“The changes are an urgent business matter for the city,” the solicitor said.

The city has pointed out several times since negotiations began to falter that no other civic union, except the transit union, rejected the pension proposal. Eight out of nine unions approved the contract, the city said.

The transit union said the meeting’s agenda will simply impose the pension plan upon them.

A newly formed advocacy group for bus riders said they’re not happy with the way transit talks have failed.

“This lockout really isn’t desirable to anybody — the city, transit workers, bus riders,” said Sarina Gersher with Bus Riders of Saskatoon.

The University of Saskatchewan Students’ Union echoed Gersher’s statement, pointing out the 11,000 students with bus passes who could be affected by a lockout.

“If we see Saskatoon Transit completely stop service it’s going to be chaos,” said USSU president Max Fineday.

Transit workers have been without a contract since December 2012.