What does the new Council look like?

[duper]

Making transit an essential service disturbs me. I used to live in Montreal where transit is an essential service. After they made it an essential service, the strikes went from 2-3 day affairs to 4-6 week affairs. I'd rather have a couple of days of no service, than weeks and months of limited service.

Declaring the TTC an essential service would remove the right to strike.
There are numerous things for Rob Ford where he has complete ideological blinders on (private garbage collection, TTC essential service designation) where he approaches issues without considering all sides to an issue and which path is more cost effective.

 

[GraphicMatt]

Essential Service designation seems like it'd have all the heft of giving the key to the city to someone. It's a token gesture. There is literally no chance of a prolonged TTC strike because the province will scramble in (even on a weekend!) to draft back-to-work legislation within 24 hours of a work stoppage. (Likely because, if they didn't, half the staff at Queen's Park wouldn't be able to make it into work.)

Edit: I think the real motivation behind it is that it would mean the government could divorce themselves from the responsibility of publicly negotiating with the transit union.

 

[nfitz]

Declaring the TTC an essential service would remove the right to strike.

That's only an assumption. In most places it only requires them to provide essential services.

And in all cases, it leads to higher contract settlements. I thought Rob Ford was about cutting the Gravy Train - not providing guaranteed wage increases and job security to overpaid TTC ticket attendants.

 

[adma]

For the 32 councilors who responded to the survey, I have listed them in order of how closely they follow the "Ford Line" on the 5 questions asked:

Y = Yes, A = Abstain, N = No

5 net yes
YYYYY Doug Ford
YYYYY Georgio Mammoliti

4 net yes
YYAYY Frances Nunziata

3 net yes
YYAAY Vincent Crisanti
YYAAY Denzil Minnan-Wong

2 net yes
YYNYA Paul Ainslie
AYAAY Doug Holyday

1 net yes
YYANA Gloria Lindsay Luby
YYNYN Peter Milczyn
YAAAA Cesar Palacio

neutral
AAAAA Ana Bailao
AAAAA Michelle Berardinetti
AAANY Raymond Cho
AANYA Gary Crawford

1 net no
AAANA Mary Fragedakis
YANNA Chin Lee
AYNNA Josh Matlow
AAANA Mary-Margaret McMahon
NAAAA John Parker
NAAAA James Pasternak

3 net no
NNNYN Maria Augimeri
NYNNN Frank Di Giorgio

4 net no
ANNNN Mike Layton
NANNN Adam Vaughan

5 net no
NNNNN Glenn De Baeremaeker
NNNNN Shelley Carroll
NNNNN Janet Davis
NNNNN Sarah Doucette
NNNNN Pam McConnell
NNNNN Joe Mihevc
NNNNN Gord Perks
NNNNN Kristyn Wong-Tam

And of those *non* respondents, I'd estimate that Grimes is a low net yes to neutral; Perruzza would be midpoint net-no; Colle would be midpoint net-no; Stintz would be low net yes to neutral (or even low new no--hey, if Parker can be); Filion would be low-to-mid net no; Shiner would be mid net yes; Robinson would be low to mid net no; Fletcher would be net no all the way; Thompson would be low to mid mid net yes; Del Grande would be net yes all the way; Kelly would be low to mid net yes; Moeser would be low net yes...

 

[Mongo]

Repost of # 104, with adma's additions

Y = Yes, A = Abstain, N = No

* = adma's estimate of where the non-responding councilors would place

5 net yes
YYYYY Doug Ford
YYYYY Georgio Mammoliti
* Mike Del Grande

4 net yes
YYAYY Frances Nunziata

3 net yes
YYAAY Vincent Crisanti
YYAAY Denzil Minnan-Wong
* David Shiner

2 net yes
YYNYA Paul Ainslie
AYAAY Doug Holyday
* Norm Kelly
* Michael Thompson

1 net yes
YYANA Gloria Lindsay Luby
YYNYN Peter Milczyn
YAAAA Cesar Palacio
* Ron Moeser
* Mark Grimes

neutral
AAAAA Ana Bailao
AAAAA Michelle Berardinetti
AAANY Raymond Cho
AANYA Gary Crawford
* Karen Stinz

1 net no
AAANA Mary Fragedakis
YANNA Chin Lee
AYNNA Josh Matlow
AAANA Mary-Margaret McMahon
NAAAA John Parker
NAAAA James Pasternak

2 net no
* John Filion
* Jaye Robinson

3 net no
NNNYN Maria Augimeri
NYNNN Frank Di Giorgio
* Josh Colle
* Anthony Peruzza

4 net no
ANNNN Mike Layton
NANNN Adam Vaughan

5 net no
NNNNN Glenn De Baeremaeker
NNNNN Shelley Carroll
NNNNN Janet Davis
NNNNN Sarah Doucette
NNNNN Pam McConnell
NNNNN Joe Mihevc
NNNNN Gord Perks
NNNNN Kristyn Wong-Tam
* Paula Fletcher