I received over 500 e-mail responses and also from door knocking feedback. The vast majority told me to vote NO.
As I represent the majority's desire I did as you instructed me to do.
Dear Neighbour:Pending ratification by CUPE members, council will be meeting this Friday, July 31st, to vote on the labour deal which was reached on Monday. The councillor would like to know your opinion, so please take your time to leave your comments under this post.
Based on recent Media Reports:
1) What are your views on the City settlement between the Mayor and the Unions?
2) Would you entertain more taxes and costs to all Toronto residents to pay for this settlement?
I look forward to your reply by July 30th as Council will be voting on the settlement on July 31st.
Thank you.
Mike Del Grande
Councillor - Ward 39 - Scarborough-Agincourt
City of Toronto
councillor_delgrande@toronto.ca
see how Windsor deal with the strike ... the City earned the trust from the citizen
ReplyDeleteI should consider moving out from Toronto
I do not agree with the following with respect to the settlement and clean-up of the garbage sites:
ReplyDelete- Providing the option to continue accruing sick days. All employees should be moved to a short-term disability plan as of the effective date of the collective agreement and sick day accrual should stop.
- The 6% increase over 3 years. This is too high compared to inflation and increases provided in the private sector. 4% over 3 years is more realistic
- Paying out ridiculous amounts of overtime to clean up the trash sites rather than hiring private companies to assist with the clean-up. If there are no financial repercussions to striking, why not strike at every opportunity?
This is ridiculous! 6% increase over 3 years? The union is just trying to milk money out of the taxpayers during the economic downtime. What's more ridiculous is that CUPE 79 will not return to work until a deal is reached with CUPE 416? So are they now ONE union?
ReplyDeleteMy vote in the next city election will be base on what you do, I have never care for city election until now and I'm determine to get everyone I know to go out and vote the next time election is held.
ReplyDeleteWe are sick and tired of being held hostage by these unions, and they need to go. At a time when people I know are getting layoff work and having a hard time to find work. You guys are planning to give them a 6% raise? They should be happy they got a job for life by working in the public sector. Try to pull this at my work and we be shown the door and have someone else replace me by tomorrow morning.
VOTE THIS DOWN and START WORKING FOR THE TAX PAYERS FOR ONCE.
Please VOTE "NO" on July 31st to reject the tentative CUPE agreement.
ReplyDeleteThe sick bank deal is ridiculous, the wage increases of 6% over 3 years is too generous, and the CUPE members should not be allowed to benefit by being paid overtime to clean up the mess that they created when they go on strike. The clean up should be done by hiring private companies.
I lived on the street behind you and voted for you in the last municipal election on November 10, 2003 because you care about our city and are concerned about the financial issues that need to be fixed. I will be very disappointed if you cave in to the deal that is so unfair to the taxpayers and harmful to the city's well being.
we don't think the Mayor worked for us, instead, he and the Union performed together for this show. Please vote No! let's move out of Toronto! why more taxes but less services.
ReplyDeleteHow did it go from 7% over 4 years to 6% over 3 years. The 6% deal is more generous than the 7% which CUPE members thought was reasonable when the mayor went public with his offer. They were willing to accept the 7% over 4 years if they had the option of keeping their sickbank days, which is what they got. So why give them more money.
ReplyDeleteHow Mayor Miller spun this to benefit of the unions is absurd and ludicrous! Vote No Councillor Del Grande! Represent the taxpayers of today and the taxpayers of tommorrow.
The banked sick days is a joke. These are the days granted to you when one is sick, not to gather money for he/she when he/she retire.
ReplyDeleteThe 6% raise over 3 years is too generous - many private sector people receive no raise in order to keep their job. The non-unionized employees have their pay freeze.
Do not pay the greedy workers overtime (double tiem and a half) for cleaning up the dump sites. Hire private contractors and save the City some money.
I do not want to pay more tax in order to entertain the new settlement.
Things we need to do next:
- Make garbabge collection an essential service (threat to the public health of the City) so they cannot go on strike.
- Privatize the service and get rid of the Unions.
- Get a new Mayor!!!!
Please VOTE "NO" on July 31st to reject the tentative CUPE agreement.The Mayor has sold out the City to the Unions. Can he tell Toronto people where would he get the cash to pay the Unions' demands???
ReplyDeleteUnions got all their demands and residents of Toronto got to pay more tax to meet their demands.
Like many others, I believe this "deal" isn't much of a deal at all for us tax payers who are having to scale back our life styles to adjust with job losses, pay cuts (yes, a cut which is a reality in the private sector today), ever increasing taxes and an unstable economy.
ReplyDeletePlease reject the deal & send these union goons a message on behalf of tax payers - We will not put up with this nonsense anymore!
Mom - Reduced pay/hours
ReplyDeleteDad - Laid Off
Uncle - Laid Off
Friends - Laid off/Reduced Hours/Wages
Toronto - Laid off/Reduced Hours/Wages
Cupe - banked cashable sick days + pay increase + holiday pay for the mess THEY created????
I really hope you and the other councillors vote a HELL NO on this deal, let them bargain again.
People fail to realize that striking workers are losing money, let them rot out there for a few more weeks and they'll snap back to reality when the repo man comes for their cars and houses. WE ARE IN A RECESSION YOU GREEDY UNION WORKERS!!!!
Please just do the people of Toronto a favor and privatize garbage collection.
Please vote "NO" to the deal. I do not believe the union members deserve to get a raise and continue to keep those so called "sick days".
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ReplyDeleteMy family and I reside within your ward and have supported you with our votes every time you have run. We consider you to be an honest and sincere person with integrity.
We respectfully insist that you vote AGAINST accepting the proposed deal to end the strike. From our perspective, the deal is heavily in favour of the union. Counterparts within the private sector receive far less in compensation and benefits. What the union members are to receive under the proposed deal is simply unreasonable and we fail to see how the City (and we as taxpayers) can afford the wages and benefits on a go forward basis.
People need a reality check which is what we thought the strike was all about. We have been able to deal without the services of the striking members for more than a month and are prepared to deal with the strike even if it lasts for more than a year! Dropping garbage off at the transfer station is nothing more than a mild inconvenience that ALL of your reasonable and responsible constituents are prepared to deal with if it means that the striking union members eventually accept reality. We cannot allow Mayor Miller to bankrupt our City. If council votes in favour of the proposed settlement, then what did the strike accomplish for the City?!
Believe me when I say that I easily speak for the VAST MAJORITY of your constiuents. Every neighbour and fellow constituent I have spoken to agrees with my sentiments.
Please vote against the proposed settlement. I am confident that you will do the right thing and that you will not fall victim to the pressure from those lazy and short sighted members of our City who are just tired of dropping off their garbage.
Thank you.
I agree with the posters here. The deal is ridiculous and the mayor has let us down! Please do not let the union rule the city and VOTE NO! You'll be doing a huge favour for Torontonians. Thank you!
ReplyDelete18 sick days, 6% increase, Paying out ridiculous amounts of overtime to clean up the trash sites, etc. Please think about people without job or still living on EI.
ReplyDeleteIf unionized people don't want to work, there are thousands people can replace them; there are a lot private companies who can do better job than them and much cheaper.
Please vote NO. As taxpayers, we suppose to get more service if we have to pay more instead of paying more and getting less and less. Please vote NO. Thanks.
I was watching the news tonight and the reporter interview a 416 CUPE member and asked the question if they plan on continue to bank their sick days. 416 CUPE member answer was "of course, I come to work when I'm sick to bank the sick days"
ReplyDeleteAt the private sector, we are told to stay home when we are sick so we do not spread it in office. As you can see how selfish/greedy these union members are. They do not care about the city, all they care about is money in their pocket.
As a taxpayer, I feel like that commericial where I the union has a hand in my pocket.
It is time to end this cycle from hell now else it will repeat again in 3 years time.
When election time comes you Mr Del Grande will have all my families VOTE for saying NO to the 79/416 contract.Thank you for standing up for the people or Toronto.
ReplyDeleteI received over 500 e-mail responses and also from door knocking feedback. The vast majority told me to vote NO.
ReplyDeleteAs I represent the majority's desire I did as you instructed me to do.
I voted NO.
Councillor Del Grande
I would also like to Thanks Mr. Del Grande for standing up for the people of Toronto. For those people that are short sighted, and can't see into the future. I really hope they have a plan when the Mayor jack up our taxes again next year to pay for this settlement.
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