by: Jonathan Jenkins and Antonella Artuso, Queen's Park Bureau, Toronto Sun,
Without a doubt, Mayor Rob Ford's prospects for success in
eliminating or at least reducing the outrageous debt left by the Miller
Gang are dim unless
Premier McGuinty agrees to reject the Rand Formula, like four other
provinces have
done! Otherwise, labour peace when
negotiating fair wages for city employees may be at risk! Archaic regulations forcing private and public
employers to deduct a portion of the salaries of all employees within a
bargaining unit, union members or not, to be paid to the union as
union dues treats all worker's as hostages and is not fair to
those workers who do not want to join a union! Over 600 city workers crossed the picket line
during last summer's garbage strike despite former Mayor Miller's policy of
union appeasement by not providing replacement workers to clean up his
mess. Has the time come to respect worker's rights?
Mayor Ford's promise to 'stop the gravy train' needs this onerous legislation repealed or certainly, tense days loom on the labour front for city
employees.
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