Toronto Moves Towards a Strike.

June 21st, 2009 // filed under: Around TORONTO, Getting around the City, Toronto

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As we march towards a CUPE strike of City workers, here are my thoughts. It will be interesting to see what transpires as the days pass:

I think that what the City workers are asking for and have been getting is unrealistic. Banked sick days, whether the economy is good or bad, is an exceptional BENEFIT, that does not appear in the private sector without bankrupting the Corporation. It is time to let that one go. It is not a RIGHT, it is a BENEFIT.
Mayor David Miller is very quite on the subject of his position on the workers demands. He will wait till they go on strike before he speaks out in any way about the Unions as he is their guy and don’t hold your breath waiting for him to show Leadership against the Union.
The Unions know that in an election year, Mayor Miller will not speak out against them and is probably working with them behind the scenes on this scenario as he did with the Builders when he proposed the Miller Land Transfer Tax. I think that the fix is already in.
The Public, unsupportive of the Unions will be unhappy and ask the Province to step in and legislate the Unions back to work.
The Provincial Liberal Party will eventually order the workers back to work. Mayor Miller will smell like roses and the City of Toronto like garbage.

What are your thoughts? Are you as jaded as I am? Feel free to comment below:

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Richard Silver