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Is Your Strike-Preparedness Plan Ready?

By Jamie Bradburn

The city has released its contingency plan in preparation for a possible walkout by municipal workers belonging to CUPE Local 79 and TCEU Local 416 at 12:01 a.m. Monday. If the strike happens, don’t plan on a ferry ride to Toronto Island, a visit to a city-operated museum, leaving your children at city-run daycares, or processing new applications for municipal permits. Unless you live in an apartment building or Etobicoke, there will be no garbage collection—the city will operate two transfer centres at all hours, with limited service at five others (please resist the temptation to dump your trash in a ravine or Rouge Park). With any luck, we won’t end up in a situation like the citizens of Windsor, where a municipal strike is now in its ninth week.

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  • http://undefined Vincent Clement

    We are entering week 10 here (for the outside workers) in Windsor.
    Hasn’t been that bad. I’ve been able to take my garbage and recyclables to one of two depots with no problems or delays. My kids soccer club found alternate fields to play on. Users of municipal day cares have found alternate day cares.
    Waiting for five minutes to enter City Hall has become a part of my daily routine. I look forward to the strike being resolved and my strike overtime pay.

  • http://undefined McKingford

    I was just down in Windsor visiting my family, and the one thing that really struck me was how great the parks look with long (ie. natural looking) grass.

  • mister j

    How is it that if you live in an apartment you’ll still get garbage picked up? I live in an apartment, so I’m glad… but it just seems weird!

  • http://undefined Erica

    Apartment buildings have their garbage pickup contracted out to private workers.. So that pickup will continue.

  • http://undefined friend68

    Hmmm… privatization… interesting…

  • http://undefined mister j

    I live in an apartment building, and I can assure you that the trucks that pick up the gargabe and recycling have “City of Toronto” on them. Perhaps it’s just larger apartment buildings? (Mine’s only a 3 story.)

  • http://undefined mister j

    …and I just came across this rather ambiguous phrase from an article in the Star: “Apartments and condos are excepted [from the strike], because they’re usually contracted out.” Article here: http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/Article/652833
    So, I suppose apartment dwellers will have to check with their landlords to see if their building has its garbage picked up by the city or if it’s been ‘contracted out.’

  • http://undefined Vincent Clement

    When the strike is settled, the Director of Parks is seriously considering setting aside at least 10 percent of park area as natural regeneration areas.