Articles tagged with: City Workers
Law and Government, Torontopreneur »
By Mike Adler, InsideToronto
Avvy Go, a lawyer working with Chinese and Southeast Asian immigrants, follows Toronto’s race for mayor and for a month she’s felt depressed.
Ever since Rob Ford spoke of his desire to close the door on newcomers – saying the city can’t take care of the people it has – “it seems like everybody else is trying to race to the bottom along with him,” Go told a mayoral debate this week.
Members of her own community have echoed Ford’s comments, said Go, representing the Colour of Poverty campaign …
tags »
Avvy Go • City Assets • City Hall • City Workers • Colour of Poverty Campaign • Diversity • employment equity • Equity • fair wage policy • George Smitherman • Hamlin Grange • Hiring • immigrants • Innis College • Innis Town Hall • Institutionalized Racism • Joe Pantalone • John Tory • labour • landlord • managed competition • Mayoral Candidate • mayoral debates • Minorities • Municipal Election • operating budget • Outsourcing • Priority Neighbourhoods • rent subsidies • Residency • Rob Ford • Rocco Achampong • Rocco Rossi • Salaries • Sarah Thomson • Service Delivery • social justice • tax incentives • TCHC • Toronto Community Housing • Torontonians • TTC • Unionized • Visible Minorities • Zanana Akande
Torontopreneur »
By DON PEAT, THE TORONTO SUN, SUN MEDIA
Mounds of trash that had started to grow in Christie Pits park are now gone.
City of Toronto managers descended on the park just after 9 a.m. to clear away trash leftover from a weekend festival and illegal dumping that started after city workers walked off the job early Monday.
The growing piles sparked protest by local residents just hours into the strike and has led to a growing petition urging the city not to use parks as temporary garbage dump sites as the labour disruption …
tags »
Bylaw • Christie Pits Park • City of Toronto Managers • City Workers • Garbage • Joe Pantalone • Parks • Parks are Not Dumps • petition • Temporary Dump Site • TOStrike • Trash
Law and Government, Photojournalism »
Photo: HiMY SYeD / photopia, on Flickr
By Corina, blogTO
If you were lucky enough to have missed the garbage strike in Toronto in 2002 (or any of the subsequent service disruptions since) don’t worry – in this city it’s becoming a regular tradition.
Only a few short years since the last strike, City workers have again walked off the job, shutting down services like summer camps and swimming pools, and suspending Toronto trash collection. Nothing says summer like a stinking city full of kids on summer vacation …
tags »
2002 • Bargaining • Bins • BlogTO • Christie Pits • Christie Pits Park • City Hall • City Workers • CUPE • Garbage • Garbage Strike • habits • Kids • Parks • Parks are Not Dumps • Protest • Summer • summer camps • swimming pools • TOStrike • Tradition • Transfer Station • Trash • Union
