kEiThZ
Superstar
I am curious to know why arbitration always costs more. I expect some compensation for losing the right to strike. But why does it always cost a lot more.
So first the Liberals cut all the funding in 2010 for TTC operations. And now they want to remove the TTC's ability to control the process?
Yes and no. The Liberals have not been formally providing a share of operations funding to TTC or any other local transit system. However, they HAVE been providing Toronto with bailout monies at budget time over the past few years, usually disguised as TTC funding in this form or that form.The Liberals didn't "cut" TTC operations funding, because it wasn't there to begin with. The province hasn't been subsidizing the TTC's operations budget since at least Harris, if not one of the Rae austerity budgets.
Given the above statement, is this study even relevant to the TTC? TTC workers are *already* getting arbitrated settlements because they actually don't get to go on strike before back-to-work legislation without binding arbitration is imposed. All the proposed legislation would do is to send it to arbitration, as already occurs, without using the public as a target for two days beforehand. There would be no other effective change.
I would really like to see a Freakonomics-style analysis of this phenomenon.I try to remain pro-union because historically it's the only sensible position, but I do think there's something wrong when private-sector unions are making all sorts of concessions and working with their employers to keep the business going while public-sector unions are getting more and more indignant.
I try to remain pro-union because historically it's the only sensible position, but I do think there's something wrong when private-sector unions are making all sorts of concessions and working with their employers to keep the business going while public-sector unions are getting more and more indignant.
I try to remain pro-union because historically it's the only sensible position, but I do think there's something wrong when private-sector unions are making all sorts of concessions and working with their employers to keep the business going while public-sector unions are getting more and more indignant.
I agree with the residency requirement. If the double monopoly is going to persist then it's time for municipalities to put up residency requirements. Something has to be done so that City employees feel the results of their actions. There is something seriously wrong when you have TTC operators commuting in from Cobourg. That's not even the GTA anymore.
I don't believe every TTC contract over the last while has gone to arbitration after an illegal strike - just 2 or 3 of them. It's a disturbing trend (especially with the wildcat strike this past year), but at least the lack of essential service designation means that a negotiated settlement is possible.