MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
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Toronto mayor pushes his union-busting dream
By acanuck on Sat, 02/04/2012 - 11:36pm |The city could be ready as early as today to start stripping job security from its biggest union of outside workers, in what appears to be a Canadian test case on American-style restrictions on public sector unions.
Job security has been at the heart of the city’s contract talks with 6,000 employees, belonging to the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 416 and including garbage collectors. The Ford administration warned Friday it would jettison the contract if there’s no agreement and do what it wants, including announcing layoffs and firings in order to contract out to private companies.
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Ack,
Say it ain't so. We depend on you guys up north to set an example for the role unions should play in a free and democratic society and how collective bargaining should work.
by Bruce Levine on Sun, 02/05/2012 - 11:42am
We've got a buffoon Mayor here, Bruce, but in the end, I think the worst case was avoided.
by Qnonymous (not verified) on Sun, 02/05/2012 - 1:45pm
Well, the initial skirmish is over, with a tentative deal after all-night bargaining.No details yet but, as usual, both sides had to put water in their wine:
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1126534--strike-averted-city-and-outside-workers-reach-tentative-agreement
The union knew it lacked public support because of the messy strike/lockout that preceded the current contract, and Mayor Ford ran the risk his unilateral actions would be ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, which in 2007 found that "freedom of association" includes the right to collective bargaining.
Ford, by the way, is a troglodyte whose ham-fisted approach to city employees and the media has created dissension even within his own party. One of his first cost-cutting moves was to target Toronto's excellent library system. He obviously doesn't read, and he didn't see why taxpayers should subsidize those elitists who do.
by acanuck on Sun, 02/05/2012 - 1:56pm
In Dylan's song, "Brownsville Girl" are the following lines.
You know it's funny how things never turn out the way you have them planned
The only thing we knew about Henry Porter is that his name wasn't Henry Porter.
The only thing we know about Qnonymous is that his name is not Qnonymous, and even that is unverified, but its funny how his comments just don't yurn up the way he had them planned.
That last part isn't in a Dylan song as far as I know.
by A Guy Called LULU on Sun, 02/05/2012 - 3:52pm