City Bargaining Negations with Its Unions Finally Become a Two Sided Affair.

Strike votes, illegal wild cat walkouts and work to rule negating tactics have been used by unions as a provocative and threatening tool for the past 50 years.


However when the tables are turned and elected representatives of management finally starts to understand and start incorporating similar negotiating tools legally available to them these same unions cry bully tactics or bad faith bargaining.


Seems the union leaders might have completely forgotten that hard nosed bargaining is not a one sided coin.


Taxpayer funded public workers for decades through their unions have continually been allowed to impose hardships on citizens and residents of Ontario, Toronto and Canada with their unsustainable benefit, pension and wage demands on the backs of the average Canadians with an annual salary of a mere $44,366 compared to the annual average salary of $63,500 including benefits and pensions for city workers.  


How many Torontonians, other than those working for the city, are guaranteed a job for life after a mere  5 years of employment and coupled with the further guarantee of a continuing annual pay increase of 1.25% in 2012, 1.50% in 2013, 1.75% in 2013 and a 1.75% pay increase for 2014 before any performance reviews are made of your job performance?


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Toronto will now struggle to do more with less

The City of Toronto is Not a Profit-Fixated Cooperation, stated Peter Clarke. 

"For far to long now unions and left leaning councillors supported by the main stream media have completely forgotten that these city jobs that CUPE members count on are paid for by the taxpayers and residents of Toronto."

"Further services performed by union or non union workers are taxpayer funded services that both classes of workers rely on for their daily jobs. Asking for a job for life was a NO DEAL and FAR too MUCH for the average taxpayers of Toronto." Feb 6, 2012 8:44 AM

City’s integrity commissioner Plays Politics by using her Unelected Position and Thrusts Her Heals into Ford Politics.

One would think that after putting her foot in her mouth during the Mayoralty race in 2010 on behalf of  left leaning councillors against Ford for using city letterhead she would have leaned her lesson.

 

Unfortunately that has not been the case, as with an apology already been given, Janet Leipere the city's integrity commissioner is attempting once again to use the unelected position of the office to illegally insist on her wording or wording only acceptable to her for any apologies that are offered or uttered by the Ford brothers on council.  

The integrity commissioner states that “councillor Doug Ford has violated her code of conduct with "intimidating language," and even though councillor Ford has already apologized to this disgruntled x city employee it was not good enough for her?

 

In my humble opinion with an apology already given the integrity commissioner has No Right or Authority to Demand the Contents or Wording of Any councillors Apology even if his name happens to be Ford.

Sounds like an ongoing political set up to me especially  when this former city employee used such words like “accosted” in an “aggressive tone” but then finished by stating “He then nervously turned around and walked away.”

It is not up to this accuser or the integrity commissioner to dictate how any apology by either party should be worded, stated or written.

This x employee did not like and thus did not accept Fords apology and now the integrity commissioner is playing politics with her continued ruffling the councillors feathers by her own attempts to write an apology in her words and not the councillors.

Both the commissioner and the disgruntled x employee did not and do not want to accept the apology given as they obviously wish to continue playing politics for their own personal vendettas.

Many Torontonians are once again asking that the integrity commissioner, Janet Leiper, reveal why she continues to thrust herself into the ongoing political campaign against the Fords? 

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1124684--doug-ford-violated-code-of-conduct-with-intimidating-language-integrity-commissioner-says?bn=1

Toronto Hydro another Dawning Political City Scandal Similar too TCHC on the Horizon?

Torontonians should be outraged at what continues on unabated at Toronto hydro because of a not so sound or transparent effective corporate practices and governance. 

In my opinion Toronto Hydro customers and taxpayers together should be demanding that a forensic audit, similar to that of TCHC, be conducted immediately.

Toronto Hydra’s current and self serving CEO, who is paid more than the US President or our Canadian Prime Minister, should be immediately replace by an interim CEO appointed by the courts on behalf of taxpayers and customers.  


All appointed board members, including those from city council, should be asked for their resignation from Toronto Hydro’s board of directors prior to an immediate forensic audit.


The management, union and current CEO should all be held equally accountable and liable for any wrong doings related to past rate hikes, business practices which resulted in the current lack of proper minimum reliability standards of the utility as approved by the board, management, condoned by union bosses and by city council.  

The past and current fuzzy expenses and accounting actions by Toronto Hydra’s Board of directors and management of deceitfully diverting funds, as evidenced in court, needed by the city’s utility for its system reliability and maintenance for the utilities aging wires and equipment, by illegally increasing unwarranted dividend payments to the city of Toronto was NOT  in the best interests its customers, taxpayers.

Such unethical and perhaps fraudulent practice is not in keeping with sound, honest, forthright corporate governance practices. It further does not create or maintain taxpayer or customer confidence in the management or the board of the utility but rather just the opposite.

However it does represent a culture of deceit and an unethical business management goal and agenda of declaring Toronto Hydro a “dividend revenue source” for the city’s ongoing financial crisis at the direct expense of Toronto hydro customers, maintenance of the utility and taxpayers.

On the other hand the president of CUPE local one, the union representing the 1, 250 Toronto Hydro workers, last year stated “Publicly-owned and delivered electricity has helped Toronto prosper. Toronto Hydro keeps the lights on for everyone – and returns millions of dollars to our city every year. When we pay for electricity, we’re paying ourselves because the City of Toronto is the sole shareholder in Toronto Hydro.”


It seems Hydro’s publicly appointed board of directors, along with city unions, special interest groups and a majority of elected councillors all continue and prefer to gamble, play fast and loose with taxpayer dollars as if it was their own money at a roulette table.


Further their attempts at raising rates to customers so that deceptive dividend payments could be deceitfully made to shore up the city of Toronto’s fiscal problems and keep union dues flowing in for the grossly inflated salaries of union bosses on the back of customers is a least unethical, immoral and worst fraudulent.

When the outgoing Mayor miraculously discovered $104.82 MILLION Dollars of Tax Payers Money Peter CLARKE called for an In-depth External Forensic Audit of City Finances, prior to Elections. That request fell on deaf ears.

Perhaps now with yet another process being a sham our Provinces Attorney General, city council along with the media and others will start demanding an investigation into these recurring shams and neglect of judiciary responsibilities by councillors, appointed Toronto hydro board members and union bosses.


http://www.ugnayan.com/ca/Ontario/Toronto/article/19KG

http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1126123--toronto-hydro-cuts-nine-managers-after-ontario-energy-board-ruling?bn=1

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Councillors Josh and Josh Play a Jewish Roulette Game with Taxpayer Dollars.

It was not a Hail Mary or Save the Children vote, as the media has called it, but a roulette gamble played out by two Toronto Jewish councillors Josh and Josh that in the long term shall actually cost Torontonians and extra $500,000 yearly or a bit less in additional interest payments on the city’s debt for the next 20 years.

Toronto it seems has 23 Councillors who are either unable or lack the financial knowledge and experience and the political capability of re-prioritizing their continued unsustainable habits of spending and borrowing.

This is not how elected representatives should work with our money.

It was not at all in the best interests of the majority of Toronto taxpayers and definitely not a prudent or fiscally responsible way to deal with the city continuing debt crisis.  

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1117299--how-councillors-coalesced-to-defeat-mayor-rob-ford?bn=1

Self Anointed Opposition De Facto Groups of the SNC and FSA Responsible for Terrorists Bombing Attacks Against Unarmed Syrian Children and Women?

The so called Syrian opposition is made up of armed forces deserters, Syrian exile members of the de facto groups like the SNC (Syrian national council), FSA (free Syrian army) and non Syrian fanatic extremists for a free Palestine along with the Muslim brotherhood for Sharia law and all are doing battle against the Assad regime and the Syrian people.

Recent bombings in Damascus have the finger print tactics of continually used by al- Qaeda, fundamentalist Sunni Muslim terrorists groups and others from throughout the region in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Egypt and Jordan.

How can the Canada, the USA and other western powers support such radical extremists and fanatical religious non elected but self anointed individuals and armed forces deserters and terrorists who call themselves the opposition and then proceed to intentionally detonate 10 kilos of highly flammable explosives in the centre of Damascus next to a primary school, shops and a mosque?

The Turkey based and self anointed commander of these Syrian army deserters a Colonel Riad al-Asaad recently stated to the world that "All operations against the Syrian regime are to be stopped except in a situation of self defense."

The western media for propaganda reasons continually refers to this non democratic and self appointed De facto group of exiles, who reside outside of Syria in Turkey and France, as the opposition and would have the world believe that the SNC and FSA was formed purely for the protection of the unarmed citizens of Syrian and its resources.

These armed protester’s, rebels, insurgents, army deserters and terrorists under the banner of an opposition are killing people as are Syrian government forces who continually claim that Syria is fighting Islamist militants steered from abroad. Maybe the world does not like it but it is a Syrian domestic civil war under the jurisdiction of the state.

The Syrian people from both sides fighting within Syria without outside intervening by western powers, pundits, academic experts or the United Nations for their own political and economic interests must decide the outcome.

However it remains my position that this civil war in Syria is definitely under the domestic jurisdiction of the state of Syria and as such it is time that France, Turkey, USA, Britain, Canada, Libya, Egypt, Iran, the displaced Palestine's fighters and all others to butt out of the internal domestic affairs of Syria or attempt to legitimize the SNC as the official opposition of the Republic of Syria.

If the regime is doomed then the Republic of Syria along with its constitution and all the legal citizens of Syria will once again be controlled by outside interests and the establishment of Sharia law as most likely will be the case in Libya and Egypt with more Middle Eastern countries to soon follow. 

2013 Up Date

http://www.thestar.com/news/2013/02/15/the_star_in_syria_factions_emerge_among_rebel_fighters.html