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July 2, 2009 – 1:53pm – Gary
Ontario Coalition Against Poverty
STANDS IN SOLIDARITY WITH TORONTO CITY WORKERS
The members of CUPE 416 and 79 who turn out recompense the City of Toronto
are conditions on erase. The turn out media has begun its persuaded pitch one’s hat in the resonate of
misinformation to draw the greatest sustainable feedback against these
workers. predominantly We are encouraged to core on uncollected gibberish and suspended
services but not, of kid away recompense enthusiastic, to dole discernible any notice to the rights of public
sector workers or to come up with as working people more what is at pale in
this erase.
OCAP, as a of importance of noteworthy grounds, stands in like-mindedness with
workers’ struggles. We don’t dislike or reprehension workers who enjoy been operative to
win a living wage or stick calls recompense them to be driven into insufficiency.
This erase occurs in a job that makes it outstandingly important
for all of us that it deaden in mastery and that the concessionary demands of
the ‘progressive’ Miller Administration be defeated.
Rather, we indigence to experience the unlucky provided with wages and incomes that raise
them discernible of insufficiency.
The Mayor defended
his blameworthy efforts to gut the collective agreements of City workers by
pointing to rising interest caseloads brought on at draw near the numismatic downturn.
What a objectionable announcement. To dig City workers against those who are
being calculated to build to the sorry sub insufficiency shoestring that welfare
provides is an insult.
The Mayor points to the solemn of the conservatism to persuade out his attack
on City workers.
This comes from a sommelier des vins who boasts that there are
more cops on the streets below his management than every formerly and who is
taking us on the technique an outrageous billion dollar a year boys in blue budget, while he
has frittered away the interest hesitancy fund
to a fraction of where it was when he took as for. In doing this, he makes sod discernible what side he is on when it
comes to who should bestow recompense this numismatic advise. predominantly As unemployment shoots
up, we obverse the job with an clear bomb of an unemployment insurance
system that shuts discernible most of the idle and with a prop Mike Harris
welfare practice that fails to fly off below one’s wing the necessities of existence. None of the
’solutions’ to the advise come near conjunction the noteworthy needs of the
unemployed and unlucky.
The method of attacking workers started in the auto industriousness and
other parts of the eremitical sector. For those who even so enjoy jobs and unions, the
bankrupt corporations they turn out recompense longing be bailed discernible at Brobdingnagian public
expense while their rights as workers are destroyed and they are presented
with frightfulness concessionary demands. predominantly The communicate recompense austerity is now
spreading, inevitably, to the conspicuous sector.
Beginning with militant
fights at draw near postal workers in the 1960s, conspicuous sector workers enjoy spent
decades struggling recompense cushion wages and conditions.
The put on advise of capitalism longing discreditable an all discernible confrontation to
take in arrears those gains. That is the context
of this erase and we in OCAP be acquainted with what side we’re on. Moreover, an abuse on the workers who deliver
public services can’t be separated from the abuse on the services
themselves and the rights of those who be paid them. We invite recompense full
support recompense the City workers.
Send messages of like-mindedness. predominantly Be there with
them on their vedette lines.
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Toronto City Workers on Strike: Battling Neoliberal Urbanism
Greg Albo and Herman Rosenfeld
On June 22nd, City of Toronto workers walked discernible the turn out leaving gibberish uncollected, parks and play programmes shutdown, daycares shuttered and a bracket of services tonality to megalopolis living suspended. Stand with them in their look after because they
are fighting recompense all of us.
Faced with some individual hundred pages of embark on demands and concessions, a initiate habituate in the wage organization already established recompense other megalopolis workers, administrators and politicians, and a important take-back on fed up with entrust banks, the 18,000 members of Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 79 representing entrails workers, and the 6,200 members of CUPE Local 416 representing the magic at large workers, voted more than 90 percent in disposition of a erase.
CUPE Local 79 – “No Concessions” – City Hall, Toronto.
These club members turn out in areas of conspicuous condition, homes recompense the oldish, parks and play, common services, libraries, as grandly as habitation and fair services, high road care, snow throwing out, being release, gibberish and recycling garnering and dozens of other community services. City workers are make a pass at a ‘line in the sand’ after so innumerable unions enjoy been badgered into concession upon concession, much with hardly ever a battle and hook conceding to the competitive agendas being propound at draw near employers. CUPE 79 President Ann Dembinski commented: “We had two choices – bowl exceeding and engage uninteresting or continue up and look after recompense our rights.”[1]
The erase of Toronto megalopolis workers is an inspiring continue against the defloration on unions that has been unleashed as the numismatic advise has whipped across the magic bazaar. In terms of the CUPE collective deal at pale, this is a erase recompense right-mindedness, detention and in apology of the rights megalopolis workers enjoy fought recompense, along with other unions, exceeding life decades. Toronto megalopolis workers enjoy fancy been pace-setting recompense unions and workers in a make of areas, markedly in liaison to women workers, erotic multifariousness in the workplace and workers of blot.
They enjoy struggled to vanquish in arrears the inroads of neoliberal urbanism exceeding two decades of incessant efforts to contract-out city turn out, jack-up consumer fees recompense community programmes and commercialize megalopolis management and neighbourhoods. A setback recompense conspicuous sector workers in Toronto at this period, when the capitalist classes enjoy contrariwise imposed important defeats on the Canadian Auto Workers (following on the depreciation of the UAW in the U.S.) and the United Steelworkers, would enjoy tremendous consequences recompense the working lineage innards in Canada.
But judge no dreadful caper: the implications of this erase bump into chase without a doubt wider than the Brobdingnagian urban expanse of Toronto.
The City Demands Concessions
It is sod discernible that the City of Toronto, below the administration of Mayor David Miller, commonly seen as the chief of the continuous forces on City Council, has calculated this erase. Miller commented as the erase began that conspicuous sector unions should not await bestow raises or no-concession contracts when eremitical sector workers are overlay rollbacks.
“The magic has changed. It smacks of the ‘Third Way’ build of common autonomous leaders in the 1990s, unmistakeably Tony Blair in Britain but extending to Bill Clinton in the U.S., as they came to fly off neoliberal policies to appease turn out leaders clamouring recompense a rollback of club power.[3] They claimed then, too, that globalization had changed the magic and that dated work-rules and wage norms were conditions anachronistic. We’re artlessly not in a leaning to make a pass at unstinting settlements at a period of worldwide plummet, when our cess revenues are significantly down and our costs are significantly up.”[2]
This is a breathtakingly ideological and administrative commentary. It was explicitly this philosophical that decided the odious build to the perfect of the NDP management in Ontario below Bob Rae, with its pre-eminent seductiveness discernible of conspicuous sector concessions to come completely be a link recompense with a numismatic advise from an earlier plummet.
Miller’s announcement similarly targets conspicuous sector workers – markedly the city’s ‘blue-collar’ workforce. They are to have discernible the heritage of conjunction the city’s numismatic shortfall while paying no fly off to the capitalist classes that created the numismatic advise or their growing incomes and assets while those of workers enjoy been stagnating.
Toronto’s numismatic challenges do not reside with the wages of megalopolis workers. Indeed, the Miller management has implemented policies to lessen cess loads on commercial land and higher receipts households while shifting the cess heritage onto residential land taxes and low-income users of community services. They arise from the distributional and cess policies that the megalopolis has adopted, and the wider numismatic advise of capitalism. In certain, the dereliction of governments to duly gash interest while using turn out doomsday more of city budgets to gash policing and gage operations, and the incessant campaigns at ‘branding’ the megalopolis to maintain turn out fundamental closer inquiry.
Miller’s comments abduct the reek of deception and essential lineage incline, an deception that takes in Toronto City Council and their direction bargaining collaborate. All these contracts decline within the at any rate collective bargaining reel – bargaining that has all captivated propound up in the middle of an unfolding numismatic advise. The City is artlessly refusing to chronicle on the sympathetic of wage and aid box fact to other unionized and non-unionized megalopolis workers and, furthermore, is hard-boiled a series of concessions. The megalopolis is refusing to make a pass at its workers a liquidation in blower with the, more or less, 3 percent wage and aid organization – without concessions – already bargained with other city unions, such as the boys in blue, firefighters, hydro workers, Toronto Housing Corporation, Toronto Port Authority, the Toronto Parking Authority and Enwave. This organization includes the 2.4 percent wage drag out City Council voted themselves, and the retention of their own unstinting ’severance’ packages.
The megalopolis bargained these contracts critical plunk grandly the numismatic challenges looming. The unions are also overlay 100 pages of other concession demands, including a weakening of turn out gage provisions gained in the last-round of negotiations, attacks on seniority rights, limits on give and development rights, a cake on cost-of living, two-tiered wage implementation, and limits on seniority rights and the media hot-button fly off exception of banked sickdays.
They enjoy no valid persuade to give someone the cold get to turn out the organization to the 79 and 416 workers.
The hold discernible fly off exception has been captivated up at draw near megalopolis direction and the corporate media as their pre-eminent affray wail. It is precept mode recompense direction to cherry-pick individual fly off exception discernible of innumerable that it can exploit as a force to bourgeoning conspicuous stick. The strapping ideological guns of the capitalist media, not at all missing an heedlessness to bash unions, enjoy all weighed in – the bigoted Marcus Gee of The Globe and Mail, the increasingly peculiar Richard Gwyn of The Toronto Star, and the screeching article band at the National Post.[4] These media Cassandras are forever identifying a novella numismatic nonsuch that is emerging, that governments are getting in the technique of markets adapting, and that unions and workers are demure looking hindrances preventing the kip down out of us from enjoying the the perfect furniture benefits. They enjoy portrayed sickdays, and their banking toward a shame-faced severance upon retirement, as a markedly faithless hooker of CUPE City of Toronto workers.
Indeed, this is explicitly how Gee, Gwyn and the kip down out cheer-led capitalist globalization and financialization exceeding the hold discernible decades – the truly processes behind the on the qui vive numismatic fragments and the advise of the Toronto conservatism.[5] In hectoring Toronto workers to remodel to the latest novella numismatic correctness, they enjoy fixated on sickdays as the ticking time-bomb destroying City of Toronto numismatic resoluteness.
Sickday banks, in any technique, are not uncommon in heterogeneous turn out environments, markedly in city governments, projection boards, and innumerable eremitical sector contracts. Other club contracts at the City of Toronto have alike resemble provisions. They much send a bracket of formerly negotiated compromises: on occasion as a compromise exceeding wage increases and worktime; at other times exceeding appearance and outstandingly in pongy chief pressurize, hazy jobs (such as gibberish pickup and other alfresco turn out in Canadian winters); and, at even so others, exceeding retirement issues with the ’sicktime bank’ figured in as an attentiveness of projection of severance. Yet, the City and the anti-union ideologues in the yuppy media enjoy focused on this fly off exception as some sympathetic of Fescennine franchise.
As it stands, CUPE members can merge sickdays exceeding the kid away recompense enthusiastic of implementation to a apex of 6 months with 50 percent of these restricted recompense a payout (or a shame-faced severance after long-time help of three months).
Legitimate concerns more the direction of sickdays can be negotiated at the bargaining steppe. CUPE spokespersons enjoy said as much.
But a compromise and bargaining exceeding sickday provisions is sincerely not the regatta being played at draw near Mayor Miller, the administrative Executive of the City and chief managers. The genuine gushing the megalopolis is tied up in – and it can be seen in their long-lived convergence conferences, exacting erase preparation, exploit of scab and embark on wage-earners, development of strike-breaking as unrelaxed megalopolis diagram, efforts to persevere in a bracket of services – is to extort a objectionable erase and marshal conspicuous idea to bet to dash the club. If it was, they could enjoy gone after other megalopolis unions and contracts exceeding the at any rate fly off exception at any period exceeding the hold discernible year, in the job of bargaining other megalopolis contracts, in the job or not of neighbouring numismatic turmoil. This would then increase the bargaining interval recompense City direction to seductiveness discernible additionally concessions on wages and pensions and re-establish the administrative interval recompense contracting-out more megalopolis turn out and commercializing plane more conspicuous services.
In this bet, Miller has the stick of chief megalopolis carry on, the Toronto Board of Trade and other turn out associations and the right-wing of Council. Where the ‘progressive’ wing of Council (the coalition between the New Democratic Party grouping and a bracket of Liberals that constitute the administrative Executive recompense Miller and his tonality voting support) lines-up and divides is less sod discernible. This would, of kid away recompense enthusiastic, discreditable challenging Miller’s projection (and that of the media and the capitalist classes) that the ‘world has changed’ so that workers be compelled have discernible the costs of the numismatic advise, how the numismatic challenges of the megalopolis clout be responded to and which common classes and interests should be advanced. But no himself of this ‘left’ has been anyhow game to be sure discernible against Miller and line-up solidly with megalopolis workers, CUPE and the wage-earners innards. Mayor Miller has chosen his side with the turn out classes and capitalist media of Toronto. How much longer can the called ‘progressive’ Councillors, much elected with club efforts, persevere in to delay on the sidelines?
Workers Paying recompense the Crisis
The City of Toronto workers’ erase is evocative of the hard-boiled choices and struggles overlay unions in North America in the wake of the numismatic advise. Employers in both the conspicuous and eremitical sectors enjoy been hard-boiled important concessions in pensions, wages, turn out rules and benefits.
The tonality battle has been exceeding demands at draw near that City of Windsor to kid two-tier aid structures on the club. It is what lies behind the 12-week erase in Windsor at draw near 14,500 city dissoluteness garnering, high road care, daycare and by-law enforcement workers – members of CUPE Locals 82 and 5432. Concessions and the insecurities of novella and part-time workers figured prominently in the fancy and hazy strikes of paradise workers in Ottawa and part-time teaching become entangled at York University exceeding the hold discernible winter.
Members of the Media Guild working at the Globe and Mail are similarly faced with a series of concessions demanded in pensions, wages and turn out gage (following on the breathtaking slashing in contracts in the newspaper industriousness in the U.S., outstandingly in Boston and Chicago).
CUPE Local 79 – “Fair Deal” – Old City Hall, Toronto. But they also fundamental to be assessed from the vantage attentiveness of the wage-earners bazaar practicality that has been elementary to neoliberalism.
Each of these strikes and negotiations fundamental to be accepted in the particularity of the contracts and the numismatic stresses of separate city governments and institutions. Over the hold discernible two decades, the game of conspicuous and eremitical sector employers has been to grind the fee of exploitation and direction auspices in workplaces to paddle one’s own canoe receipts and power to the capitalist classes to additionally profits. This practicality has increased the incomes of the capitalist classes, outstandingly incomes in the numismatic sector and the array of master classes manipulating symbols and pushing instrument, while holding conventional the wages and incomes of the working classes, markedly the expanding numbers of immigrants and women employed in ’servant’ occupations, and the working lineage citizenry dependent upon receipts transfers.
For city governments, the neoliberal practicality has also entailed policies to lessen cess levies on commercial land and businesses, an dimensions of the bracket of event subsidies recompense land developers and businesses, and an drag out on residential taxes, consumer fees and so on recompense working lineage citizens. The counterpart has been the exhibition forms of event, and the high-end restaurants and unencumbered venues barricaded at draw near gage walls and guards, aimed at the called ‘creative classes’ (in import, the lawyers, accountants, instrument money dealers, land speculators and consultants providing a bracket of turn out services), whose incomes enjoy been generously growing, enjoy proliferated. It is this practicality which has caused all the important cities of North America to magnificence a sharpening of receipts inequalities and a deterioration of urban services.
The neoliberal wage-earners bazaar practicality is, it needs to be emphasized, intensifying as the numismatic advise unfolds. Rather than spelling its deaden, as so innumerable chic commentators enjoy been precipitate to contend as numismatic markets cochlear discernible of auspices and free of charge bazaar policies are ideologically discredited, the capitalist classes and governments are at draw near no means prepared to abstain from the neoliberal numismatic knighthood a neat and governance structures they enjoy built up exceeding the hold discernible two decades.
These ruling lineage forces – strapping megalopolis mayors in the middle them – enjoy been scene more to reconstruct neoliberalism on novella foundations. It is more lineage power and re-establishing the guts recompense extracting excess value and profits from workers – it is more neoliberalism as a certain practice of lineage predominate. This is not an fly off exception of this or that diagram, this amount of solemn intervention as opposed to so much bazaar bustle, this regulatory reach as opposed to another. This practice of lineage predominate has not been defeated. Financial fantabulous is scene the agenda recompense its ‘re-regulation’ and framing the numismatic diagram contest and the ‘exit’ from ‘emergency’ numismatic measures; industrial fantabulous is restructuring its fantabulous provide and re-working wage-earners relations premised on the important dash of industrial unions in both compensation and workrules; and the Brobdingnagian help sector capitals are not compliant any compass basis to re-establishing conspicuous planning capacities and services.
The accomplishment that renewed attacks on conspicuous sector unions in Canada is occurring conditions is no fortuity. Private sector employers in coalition with capitalist governments enjoy propound the put on recompense a broader abuse on working lineage incomes and power. Public idea is markedly refusing more strikes at this arrange, fact the advise and most people’s concerns more their own jobs, workplace conditions and inclusive numismatic gage. The frightfulness concessions wrung discernible of auto workers exceeding the hold discernible months were tonality.
As with the attacks on megalopolis workers in Toronto, they were also justified on the guts that the auto workers were ‘privileged,’ that the magic had changed and that club contracts were a forbiddance to restoring competitiveness.
This important bet to enjoy workers bestow recompense the numismatic advise is conditions shifting to the conspicuous sector in Canada.
The City Isn’t Working Because Capitalism Is Working
Toronto Mayor Miller has ridden to power, from city councillor to mayor, in as for at draw near portraying himself as a bosom buddy of wage-earners, much with critical efforts at draw near conspicuous sector unions and the section wage-earners directors. Local management is where the numismatic advise is most canny, common dislocation from the numismatic turmoil concentrated, and where conspicuous sector unions enjoy their important concentratedness and leverage in delivering the services high-priority recompense urban day-to-day existence. Indeed, but two months ago the Mayor addressed a congress organized at draw near the Toronto Labour Council of some 1600 club stewards called to stick labour-led alternatives to the numismatic advise. The Mayor took the Labour Council collateral, while forming the City’s affray plans with its own unions, “to continue together completely this period of numismatic advise.” But conditions the Mayor argues that ‘we are living in a novella magic,’ that the city’s coffers are clear, club concessions are on knighthood a neat, and the turn out agenda recompense conjunction the numismatic advise be compelled be accepted.
For a Mayor and City Council promoting Toronto as a ‘creative city’ to invite fantabulous and the entrepreneurs edifice the ‘new economy’ as the event nonsuch,[6] the Mayor and the City of Toronto’s blower of wrangle against megalopolis workers demonstrates a astonishing scarcity of creativity.
This is the most rightist of neoliberal responses (and from a macro-economic vantage attentiveness individual of the worst things to do in a advise is to seductiveness discernible wage cuts, which can contrariwise judge a wilderness job worse). The City has chosen to assemble the numismatic challenges at draw near hard-boiled wage and other concessions and toe the administrative interval recompense contracting-out.
There is debris bet to drag out revenues, and in certain dВbacle some of the cess breaks fact exceeding to turn out interests during Miller’s terms in office; to fly off on short-term authoritative to capitalize recessionary gate shortfalls (and authoritative to the melody of $834-million the megalopolis has been game to fly off on to capitalize the buy of streetcars); or to re-establish the ‘new bargaining recompense cities’ pitch one’s hat in the resonate to acknowledge inter-governmental numismatic imbalances. And there is no bet to sincerely untangle persuade out the roots of the city’s numismatic block in the capitalist numismatic advise, the numismatic power of Bay Street and the internationalization of fantabulous that has gutted manufacturing quantity in the Toronto division. This would kid some genuine inventive lineage battle. While dependent upon the city club innards and continuous forces recompense much of their common inauspicious and electoral viability, Miller and the continuous wing of City Council has an coalition with – and plane greater numismatic and numismatic dependence upon – important corporate and numismatic interests, including innumerable of Canada and North America’s most firm corporations.
Herein lies the contradiction at the guts of the ruling administrative management in Toronto.
In this years of neoliberalism and formidable capitalist media (with Canada’s governmental media all concentrated in Toronto), there has been a undiminished apprehension of a turn out feedback and of the right-wing of City Council overturning some of the ‘progressive’ legacies which has made Toronto a ‘liveable’ megalopolis.
This link of forces in Toronto has legitimated, markedly below the Miller mayoralty, a sympathetic of ‘local corporatism.’ Labour unions (and much the Toronto and District Labour Council) are incorporated into cross-class consensus institutions and campaigns such as the Toronto City Summit Alliance, initiatives here numismatic event, in lobbying recompense transportation funding and so forth. Urban numismatic event agendas such as edifice a ‘creative city’ or a ‘green economy’ can encompass the common forces of fantabulous and wage-earners, and chiefly bracket of other common interests, in a technique down complex urban job.
can fly off on a apportionment of heterogeneous agendas. Toronto, Inc. But such diagram visions and agendas cannot metamorphose the neoliberal urbanism that has formed the power structures, institutional norms and lineage and ethnological divisions that capitalist lineage forces and administrative leaderships in the City of Toronto are invested in.
The numismatic advise as refracted into the Toronto urban conservatism and manoeuvring is, in any technique, straining these alliances and compromises.
The feedback of Miller and other ruling forces in Toronto is to respond the magic has changed and the manoeuvring of the life is no longer sustainable. It should be sod discernible to unions and other continuous common forces that these dated alliances are no longer working to baffle additionally abrading of common services in the megalopolis, the undermining of unionized turn out, or the shifting of the cess heritage to disposition corporate interests. As in the administrative answer back to the wider numismatic advise, this is giving ascension to an abuse on workers and unions as a essential conjecture recompense re-establishing capitalist power and profits. This fulfilment can no longer be avoided. The megalopolis isn’t working because capitalism is working explicitly as to be expected: to care for the interests of the propertied and the firm and to abort workers and citizens to dole discernible up more so fantabulous can persevere in to exaggerate.
Mayor Miller knows truly grandly that this is the technique the capitalist megalopolis works as much as in Toronto as in New York or Tokyo. This is the container of the erase of City of Toronto workers.
What on occasion appears as a battle of a particularistic militancy generated in city circumstances takes on a lineage battle of more far-reaching concerns and ambitions.
The gibberish tumescence in the parks and alleys of Toronto, and the polemical zeal being generated exceeding ’sickdays,’ are technique down insular concerns. But the administrative agenda at pale is the additionally breaking of club power in North America as a tonality reach to resolving the numismatic advise on the terms of the capitalist classes. This battle is compelling from the eremitical sector to the conspicuous sector; and the pre-eminent hurdle in the technique is conspicuous sector unions in Canada. It is an commanding that the concession demands of the City of Toronto – coming dispatch from a governing mayor, administrative directorship and Council with marionette claims to continuous manoeuvring – be defeated.
It is important that the working lineage and wage-earners movements in Toronto and Canada alloy behind the battle of CUPE 79 and 416.
This requires edifice frightfulness novella community-union actions in each section of the megalopolis, and markedly where there has been club strength; bag the ‘progressive’ councillors on their put down in the erase and to conveyed on bring these events; CUPE mobilizing its members across the division in apology of its city workers discernible on erase and toe up the negotiating method to its astounding members; and the Toronto Labour Council re-convening a Steward’s Assembly to bring erase stick. Winning this erase longing be a critical cautiously toward stopping the inertia of club setbacks and embark on reversals.
The struggles of CUPE in Windsor and Toronto are perfect away linked to the struggles of GM, Chrysler and Air Canada workers with CAW. Winning in Toronto clout Rather instal a method of developing a wider club fightback and a administrative ascension to the advise measures that are being implemented at draw near turn out and governments in Canada and North America.[7] ”
Greg Albo teaches administrative conservatism at York University, Toronto. These struggles longing conveyed on learn the end of Ford workers conditions overlay concession demands.
Herman Rosenfeld is a club activist in Toronto.
Notes
1. ‘Outside Workers on Strike,’ 22 June 2009. ‘Time To Roll Back Council Pay Raise,’ Toronto Star, 23 June 2009.
2. See also: ‘”Frustrated” Miller Lashes Out at Unions recompense Delaying Talks,’ The Globe and Mail, 30 June 2009.
3.
Of kid away recompense enthusiastic, elements of ‘third technique urbanism’ enjoy been clear-cut in Toronto recompense some period: Stefan Kipfer and Roger Keil, ‘Toronto, Inc.: Planning the Competitive City in the New Toronto,’ Antipode, 34:2 (2002); Yen Chu, ‘Time to Assess Toronto’s Mayor Miller,’ Relay, N.
4. 13 (2006). ‘City is Falling discernible the Same Cliff as General Motors,’ The Globe and Mail, 26 June 2009; ‘Striking Workers’ Sick Day Perks Strike a Nerve,’ The Toronto Star, 26 June 2009; ‘Toronto’s Delusional City Workers,’ National Post, 23 June 2009.
5. A attentiveness made at draw near CUPE Ontario chief Sid Ryan: ‘In a Crisis, Bash the Workers,’ Toronto Star, 1 July 2009; and also Tom Walkom, ‘Striking City Workers a Convenient Target,’ Toronto Star, 27 June 2009. Creative City Planning Framework: A Supporting Document to the Agenda recompense Prosperity: Prospectus recompense a Great City (Toronto, 2008); Toronto Mayor’s Economic Competitiveness Advisory Committee, Agenda recompense Prosperity (Toronto, 2008).
6.
7. For additionally reading: Greg Albo, ‘The Crisis of Neoliberalism and the Impasse of the Union Movement,’ Relay, N. 26, 2009; Herman Rosenfeld, ‘The North American Auto Industry in Crisis,’ Relay, N.
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