The City of Toronto has reached a tentative agreement with CUPE Local 79, which represents the City’s 21,000 active inside workers. Details of the agreement will be released once it is ratified by the Local 79 membership and subsequently approved by City Council. A new agreement with the City’s 4,200 active outside workers, represented by Toronto Civic Employees’ Union Local 416 (CUPE), was approved by City Council on February 29. City services and programs continue as usual. This news release is also available on the City’s website: http://bit.ly/1QtK9RZ
DAYCARE, CITY ARENAS
A settlement pending ratification will ensure continued operation of municipal daycare and other community services, such as arenas and community centres. Leaside Garden for example will see business as usual because of a settlement.
THESE ARE “GOOD JOBS”
Mayor Tory had spoken Wednesday about the negotiations and did not seem hopeful. Nonetheless, many others felt that the union’s ongoing complaint about what seemed like incidental issues was not sustainable. This was underlined by the recent agreement with Local 79’s sister local (416) representing outside workers. In the end, Tory’s assertion that City jobs are good jobs must surely have resonated with the many clerical and maintenance employees who would have plainly been hurt by a strike.
