The City has received the “No Board” report regarding its outside workers in CUPE Local 416 There are 4,200 such employees with the most important being those who collect the garbage. The arrival of the report sets a clock ticking to 12:01 a.m., or one minute past midnight, on the morning of Friday, February 19. At that time the City may lock out the union and/or the union may strike. But a stoppage is not inevitable. The news release linked states generalities and says nothing about the half of Toronto that has privatized garbage collection nor has anyone at in the government said anything about that. City News Release
