Public Sector Unions “Jobs For Life”
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/11/08/toronto-aims-to-strip-employment-security-in-contract-negotiations-union-president/
Toronto is ready to lock out city union workers because of their insistence on keeping their “Employment Security” clause in their contract starting in January 2012.
Employment security means that if a city worker’s job disappears the city has to put the worker in another position within the city government.
In order for Toronto’s Mayor Ford to save millions of dollars in tax spending he wants to contract out a larger portion of city services and he cannot do this with the security clause in the union contacts.
Mayor Ford has issued an ultimatum that if the city unions won’t agree to take the employment security clause out of their contracts negotiations will stop and a citywide lock out will be triggered.
Because of the economic turmoil the private sector jobs are disappearing because more people are saving their money and not spending as much and is it time for the public sector unions to feel that same pain.
Contracting out services does not save the taxpayer any more money and they have to put up with less services so to the taxpayer they will be paying more for less.
Is it time for Public sector unions to suck it up and suffer like the rest of us or should they fight for what they have won in the past.
Seems only public sector unions can enjoy jobs for life.
What do you think?
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/11/08/toronto-aims-to-strip-employment-security-in-contract-negotiations-union-president/
Toronto is ready to lock out city union workers because of their insistence on keeping their “Employment Security” clause in their contract starting in January 2012.
Employment security means that if a city worker’s job disappears the city has to put the worker in another position within the city government.
In order for Toronto’s Mayor Ford to save millions of dollars in tax spending he wants to contract out a larger portion of city services and he cannot do this with the security clause in the union contacts.
Mayor Ford has issued an ultimatum that if the city unions won’t agree to take the employment security clause out of their contracts negotiations will stop and a citywide lock out will be triggered.
Because of the economic turmoil the private sector jobs are disappearing because more people are saving their money and not spending as much and is it time for the public sector unions to feel that same pain.
Contracting out services does not save the taxpayer any more money and they have to put up with less services so to the taxpayer they will be paying more for less.
Is it time for Public sector unions to suck it up and suffer like the rest of us or should they fight for what they have won in the past.
Seems only public sector unions can enjoy jobs for life.
What do you think?
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