Rob Ford and his staff keep finding new ways to make me sick. This time it involves bad negotiating practices with the city's unionized workers. City just tabled an 11th hour offer to workers that takes away job security and benefits and makes it easier to fire workers. Not only that, they said that the city will impose these new conditions whether the union accepts them or not, forcing unionized workers to accept their terms or go on strike. Read the Toronto Star article about the situation below.
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1125812--city-of-toronto-s-threatening-final-offer-rejected-by-union?bn=1
Basically, Ford is trying to paint the union as the bad guys by giving them an offer they can't accept and then letting them go on strike. This prevents Ford from having to look like the bad guy by locking workers out on Sunday if a new deal is not in place.
This is a really dirty, underhanded tactic that someone who truly wanted a deal in place before the current contract runs out wouldn't do. It is, yet again, another case of bullying by the Ford administration and it is their way of trying to divide and break down the union and to turn the public against them. Essentially, I believe they feel that if the union goes on strike, then Ford's team can villainize them them and convince the public to demand the city use cheaper, non-unionized workers.
Whether you like unions or not, dirty bargaining practices have no place in honest negotiations. Ford and his stooges have to go. They have to go soon before they destroy this city!
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