Must suck to be in Toronto now

[Leslie]

Trash Thrash

Toronto’s mean streets have truly become Toronto’s Mean Streets. The lack of garbage collection due to the C.U.P.E. strike appears to be turning otherwise normal residents into hostile combatants.

There were confrontations over garbage citywide, with one of the strangest occurring at Adelaide and John Sts. The scene turned positively surreal, as two striking C.U.P.E. workers confronted two men in a truck trying to remove a mound of trash from in front of a building. “That’s my garbage!” shouted one, as the union strikers called him ‘scab’.

The situation reached ludicrous proportions, as both sides swore, shoved the other, and battled over the bags. As one tried to load his truck, the union men would reach in and unload it. They tried to throw the bags into the open cab. But the strikers blocked it like basketball players. They played soccer with the green containers, kicking them away from each other, trying to gain control. And amidst all the pushing and shoving was an ongoing war of words that lasted 10 minutes or more.

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[Leslie]

Toronto’s labour disputes reached a fever pitch on Saturday, after striking C.U.P.E. outside workers tried to halt private haulers from picking up trash.

“We have private haulers there,” said President of Local 416, Brian Cochrane. “You can understand the guys on the line for 11 days, they will not take kindly to the very things that they are fighting against, coming in and doing that garbage collection.”

But the city didn’t take kindly to strikers obstructing workers, and went to the Ontario Supreme Court on Saturday to get an injunction allowing a clean up. The order to tidy certain garbage piles came from the Public Health Unit on Friday; due to the danger of a rat and fly infestation at Ingram, Victoria Park and Trinity-Bellwoods Park dump sites.

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[equinoxe3d]

You could take your garbage and put it in front of the mayor's house (seriously, it happened a few years ago in Montreal, it was planified and a decent amount of people did it)

 

[Professur]

Enough there to do the mayor's house and city hall.

 

[ris]

yuhup

 

[ris]

yuhup

 

[Leslie]

It’s over. Legislation to end Toronto’s C.U.P.E. strike passed at Queen’s Park, after a long series of endless wrangling between the Tories and the N.D.P. The stumbling block, the naming of an arbitrator, was finally solved Thursday afternoon, after the Liberals brokered a compromise.

The Grits submitted 6 names they believe could serve as an impartial judge. At least three of those names – Victor Pathe, Tim Armstrong and Kevin Whitaker, were agreeable to all sides. Under the deal, the city and the union now has 5 days to work out who should arbitrate the dispute. If they can’t agree, one of the three names would be chosen.

“They are all well known. They are all well respected. They all have a great level of trust,” concludes N.D.P. leader Howard Hampton.

The passage of the bill means workers will be returning to their jobs Friday morning, with garbage pick-up for residents coming back on Monday.

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[Professur]

Translation: Pay all the union dues you like, you still can't strike.