Though the piles of our own offal have been mounting for weeks, it wasn’t until the city went public with a wage offer that the strike began to feel dirty.
End the strike, Internet
Solution to the strike should be crowdsourced
By Joshua Errett
Fans of openness in government could put their hands together last week for Mayor David Miller, who on Friday posted on its website the city’s offer to unions in the ongoing strike.
Now fans of crowdsourcedness – the practice of inviting unpaid Internet users to find solutions – should push Miller to place all negotiations online and let the public solve the strike.
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Striking Out
BY Edward Keenan June 24, 2009 14:06
No pain for the City. No gain for the workers. Can we call the whole thing off?
The most maddening thing about the strike by Toronto municipal workers that began Monday morning is not the patent absurdity of the workers’ claims that they are treated “unfairly” by the city.
Make no mistake, though, such claims are absurd: employees of the city of Toronto typically earn much, much more than the market value of their work. According to government statistics, the average security guard in Toronto earns $12 per hour, while a “Security Reception Officer” with the city earns $23.90 per hour. “ Light Duty Cleaners” out in the private sector have an average wage of $11.90 per hour while their counterparts on the city payroll make $21.30 per hour. Cooks for the city make more than double their market value at $25.02 per hour. One could go on all day.
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