All Entries Tagged With: "unions"
Selley: Rossi Promises Private-Sector Garbage, Public-Sector Peace
Chris Selley offers his take on mayoral candidate Rocco Rossi’s latest proposal on unions and labour contract issues: “The reannouncement is clearly designed to play off Mr. Rossi’s purported new bona fides — which have yet to be tested by the pollsters, let alone the voters — as the candidate of common sense, non-sugar-coated solutions. [...]
NP Political Panel: The Union Kiss Of Death?
This week’s instalment of the National Post’s municipal election panel has the three talking about the role of unions in this October’s election: Goldsbie: Do union members really vote as homogeneously as all that? I dunno. But I like how Rossi and Thomson insist on having it both ways — repeatedly deploying deliberately divisive rhetoric [...]
Rossi, Thomson Crash Labour Day Parade
Despite not being invited, mayoral candidates Rocco Rossi and Sarah Thomson joined the city’s annual Labour Day Parade: “I’m here with the 793 local of the International Operating Engineers and they invited me and accepted me to walk in the parade,” Rossi said. “I want to be the mayor for all of Toronto, this is [...]
Mayoral Candidates Court Union Vote
Toronto’s mayoral candidates will be using Labour Day to court Toronto’s workers, including Joe Pantalone who will be addressing the crowd at the annual Labour Day Parade: “This is not, as certain Mayoral candidates would like to pretend, a race between Rob Ford on the right and everyone else on the left,” said Toronto’s deputy [...]
Smitherman Backs Selling Off Some City Services
In a sit down with the Toronto Star, mayoral frontrunner George Smitherman indicated he would give “careful consideration” to the idea of contracting out some of the city services currently provided by unionized employees: “[T]he two places where big dollars are spent and where outsourcing are going to be most prevalent are garbage and also [...]
Giambrone Locking Up Union Vote?
At its last meeting of 2009, Toronto City Council banned union and corporate donations to the campaigns of candidates for Toronto mayor or city councillor. But the ban leaves open a wide loophole, one that David Miller used to considerable benefit during his successful 2003 campaign. In that campaign, Mr. Miller staffed five campaign offices [...]
