Here are 10 snaps of Vancouver bus drivers not in uniform today (PHOTOS)

Bus Drivers across Metro Vancouver are wearing their own clothes instead of their Coast Mountain Bus Company uniforms as part of the transit strike.

Photo: Elana Shepert / Vancouver Is Awesome

Notice anything different about your Vancouver bus driver today?

Bus Drivers across the Lower Mainland are wearing their own clothes instead of their Coast Mountain Bus Company uniforms as part of the first steps in the transit strike.

Unifor, the union representing Coast Mountain Bus Company bus operators and maintenance trades, issued strike notice earlier this week for the first time in 18 years.

The initial phase of the job action began at 8 a.m. this morning, with nearly 5,000 transit operators not wearing their CMBC uniforms and maintenance workers not doing overtime.

In addition, Unifor representatives distributed t-shirts to transit operators as part of the uniform ban that began this morning.

We asked a few drivers if they'd allow us to take a photo of them in their street clothes.

Photo: Elana Shepert / Vancouver Is Awesome