Toronto Silly Hall (How Many Paid Sick Days Do You Get?)

Smells like strike season By SUE-ANN LEVY I couldn't help but admire the CUPE union brass when they announced late last week that their 24,000 members will be in a legal strike position in just 13 days time.

....this an examp[le of the mentality of many of the union leaders:

Playing field mowers are scabs, CAW warns
Union says it may stop funding children's sports leagues if coaches, parents cut grass during strike
By Frances Willick, The Windsor StarMay 29, 2009 1:01 AM

WINDSOR, Ont. -- The CAW may stop sponsoring children’s sports leagues if coaches and parents take to the baseball diamonds and soccer fields with lawn mowers during the city workers’ strike. “We don’t have a habit of funding scab organizations,” said Gary Parent, secretary-treasurer of CAW Local 444.
Mowing the sports fields would be tantamount to being a scab, he said, and that sort of interference would “absolutely” affect the council’s sponsorship.

City can't bend on union deal By KAREN STINTZ, GUEST COLUMNIST The City of Toronto's unions and its residents all agree on one thing: No one wants a strike involving virtually half of Toronto's workforce.

Entitled to their entitlements

Margaret Wente

In the public sector, unions are fighting to protect entitlements the rest of us can only dream about