Revenge is a dish best served COLD
With 80 percent of snow removal service in Toronto already contracted out and below zero temperatures helping to refrigerate garbage that might not be picked up between now and March, what’s not to like about the city’s strategy to manage what is likely to be an inevitable labour disruption NOW rather than in the Summer. That is clearly the city’s plan as you can hear between the lines of this interview I conducted with Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday this morning on 680 news.
Like it or not, the Ford administration is going to handle labour negotiations much differently than David Miller did. The plan is to prevent negotiations from dragging into the Summer only to be faced at that time with a strike that results in mountains of stinking, maggot- invested garbage , not only choking the residents of the city, but choking the local economy that thrives on tourists who would find other places to spend their time and money as they did the last time after CNN focussed it’s International cameras’ on Toronto’s oozing blister.
Is a negociated settlement better ? Yes. Is a negociated settlement possible ? dunno. Is a garbage strike likely to be used as a hammer ? Historically it has been. Is a garbage strike in Winter easier on the City’s economy and on residents? You betcha !