If Premier Wynne feels the need to intervene somewhere in Toronto, we suggest she start with the elevator strike rather than at city hall. Repair personnel of the four big elevator companies have been off work for nearly a month. We are hearing a story a day now from apartments and condominiums of elderly cliff-dwellers who cannot get into or out of their homes. The stress must be enormous on these people. It will only take one of them to have a heart attack carrying groceries up the stairs to set off a cynical thunder of indignation at the Legislature. The government should get busy immediately knocking heads together. For a strike that is causing so much grief, the issue seems silly. One union official says it’s all about “workloads and staffing levels”. Good grief. For this kind of mumbo jumbo we’re risking the lives of hundreds of seniors?
A bad situation here on Thorncliffe Park drive in our 25 storey highrise. Only one elevator out of 5 working in the middle of a heatwave, and a pile of elderly and women with children and baby carriages crowding in the main lobby like it was Union station at rushhour. I helped one young woman with a child upstairs with her groceries.
I thought the strike was coming to
an end?