City releases contingency plan ahead of indoor workers’ strike deadline

By News Staff

The City of Toronto has laid out its contingency plan should a deal fail to be reached with its inside workers by the end of the week.

Currently the deadline is 12:01 a.m. Saturday. After that, the city’s 22,000 inside workers will be in legal strike position.

Talks between the city and CUPE Local 79 have been going on since their contact expired in December.

Last month the union requested a no board report from the Ontario Ministry of Labour, which was then issued a few days later — starting the countdown to a potential work stoppage.

Inside workers include public health nurses, child care workers, court services staff, ambulance dispatchers, social service workers and long-term care home workers.

At a press conference on Monday, city manager Chris Murray delivered the city’s contingency plan, saying emergency response would not be impacted, nor would TTC or TCHC services. But labour disruption would impact city-run child care, recreation centres and programming, ”non-critical” TPH operations and administrative services.

To read the city’s contingency plan, click here.

This comes just days after the city unanimously ratified the collective agreement with CUPE Local 416 — which represents the city’s outside workers.

The tentative deal was reached between both sides last month, just half an hour before the strike deadline, averting a potential labour disruption.

Details of the agreement were not released but one of the key issues for the union was job security for senior members with more than 15 years of experience. They were looking to ensure they don’t lose their jobs to privatization.

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