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Toronto’s 2025 Budget: Rebuilding requires investing in workers For a decade, the City of Toronto has lived under a climate of austerity which has affected not just the residents of our city but its workers. Our buildings are falling apart, our services are stretched thin and the staff who run our city are being run off their feet. Today, Mayor Chow launched her version of the 2025 City of Toronto budget. We agree with the Mayor that in the middle of an affordability crisis, people need public services most and that it is finally time to rebuild our city. Rebuilding our city requires investments in its workers. As Torontonians struggle with the cost of living and try to lift each other up, our members are already doing the work necessary to build community. An investment in the recruitment and retention of the people who run our shelters, take care of our children and elderly, test our water, manage traffic, answer 311 calls, run our recreation programs, facilitate the building of affordable housing and so much more is vital. Today, we remain disappointed with the City of Toronto’s refusal to invest in the workers who have been providing life-saving harm reduction services to our most vulnerable residents. Instead of redeploying the qualified workers from The Works safe injection site and actually showing leadership, Toronto Public Health maintains their stance that these positions will be deleted. Equally concerning is the lack of emphasis on additional positions for call takers and dispatchers in the Central Ambulance Communications Centre and the lack of advocacy to the provincial government for more operating dollars. The crisis in emergency response times will not improve if there are no workers available to dispatch the additional paramedics that will be hired. Every Toronto resident should be concerned about not having enough ambulance dispatchers - this is a matter of life and death. Local 79 members ensure the City of Toronto functions. Our members deserve respect for their work and recognition of the crises impacting their labour.
Wishing one and all a happy Lunar New Year! Gong xi fa cai/Gong hey fat choi! 恭喜发财 Losar / Tsagaan Sar 恭喜發財，萬事如意 恭喜发财，万事如意 새해 복 많이 받으세요 Chúc mừng năm mới สวัสดีปีใหม่วันตรุษจีน イイ ソーグヮチ デービル (旧正月)元旦おめでとうございます Baengv-orn siang-hyangx ༄༅ ལོ་གསར་བཟང་། བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་། ཨ་མ་བག་དྲོ་སྐུ་ཁམས་བཟང་། གདན་ཏུ་བདེ་བ་འཐོབ་པར་ཤོག་། སང་ལོའི་ད་ལྟའི་དུས་ཚོད་ལ་། འདི་ལས་ཕྲ་རིག་རིག་ཡོང་བར་སྨོན་།། ᡳᠴᡝ ᠠᠨᡳᠶᠠ ᠰᡝᠪᠵᡝᡢᡤᡝ᠈ ᡝᡵᡝ ᠠᠨᡳᠶᠠ ᡩᡝ ᠠᠮᠪᠠ ᠣᡵᡤᡠᠨ ᠣᡴᡳᠨᡳ (Iče aniya sebjengge, ere aniya de amba orgun okini!) Цагаан сарын шинэ жил баяр энх мэндэ хүргъе! / ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠠᠷ᠎ᠠ ᠤ᠋ᠨ ᠰᠢᠨ᠎ᠡ ᠵᠢᠯ ᠪᠠᠶᠠᠷ ᠡᠩᠬᠡ ᠮᠡᠨᠳᠤ ᠬᠦᠷᠭᠢᠶ᠎ᠡ Цагаан һараар! Сагаалганаар! Цаһан сар өлзәд багтҗ йовтн Чаа чыл биле
This morning, members of CUPE Local 79 delivered over 8,000 unique petitions to Councillor Shelley Carroll’s office, Chair of the City of Toronto Labour Relations Subcommittee and Budget Committee, during the last meeting of the City of Toronto Budget Committee.   The petitions, signed by Local 79 members who work for the City of Toronto, highlight the need for wages that keep pace with inflation and call for an end to unsafe and understaffed workplaces.     The workers are asking the City to deliver fair, inflation-adjusted wage increases, respect workers by addressing unmanageable workloads and chronic understaffing, ensure equity for part-time and casual workers and deliver workplace benefits that support the workers’ health and allow them the dignity to retire after a lifetime of public service.
Toronto’s 2025 Budget: Rebuilding requires investing in workers For a decade, the City of Toronto has lived under a climate of austerity which has affected not just the residents of our city but its workers. Our buildings are falling apart, our services are stretched thin and the staff who run our city are being run off their feet. Today, Mayor Chow launched her version of the 2025 City of Toronto budget. We agree with the Mayor that in the middle of an affordability crisis, people need public services most and that it is finally time to rebuild our city. Rebuilding our city requires investments in its workers. As Torontonians struggle with the cost of living and try to lift each other up, our members are already doing the work necessary to build community. An investment in the recruitment and retention of the people who run our shelters, take care of our children and elderly, test our water, manage traffic, answer 311 calls, run our recreation programs, facilitate the building of affordable housing and so much more is vital. Today, we remain disappointed with the City of Toronto’s refusal to invest in the workers who have been providing life-saving harm reduction services to our most vulnerable residents. Instead of redeploying the qualified workers from The Works safe injection site and actually showing leadership, Toronto Public Health maintains their stance that these positions will be deleted. Equally concerning is the lack of emphasis on additional positions for call takers and dispatchers in the Central Ambulance Communications Centre and the lack of advocacy to the provincial government for more operating dollars. The crisis in emergency response times will not improve if there are no workers available to dispatch the additional paramedics that will be hired. Every Toronto resident should be concerned about not having enough ambulance dispatchers - this is a matter of life and death. Local 79 members ensure the City of Toronto functions. Our members deserve respect for their work and recognition of the crises impacting their labour.
Wishing one and all a happy Lunar New Year! Gong xi fa cai/Gong hey fat choi! 恭喜发财 Losar / Tsagaan Sar 恭喜發財，萬事如意 恭喜发财，万事如意 새해 복 많이 받으세요 Chúc mừng năm mới สวัสดีปีใหม่วันตรุษจีน イイ ソーグヮチ デービル (旧正月)元旦おめでとうございます Baengv-orn siang-hyangx ༄༅ ལོ་གསར་བཟང་། བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས་ཕུན་སུམ་ཚོགས་། ཨ་མ་བག་དྲོ་སྐུ་ཁམས་བཟང་། གདན་ཏུ་བདེ་བ་འཐོབ་པར་ཤོག་། སང་ལོའི་ད་ལྟའི་དུས་ཚོད་ལ་། འདི་ལས་ཕྲ་རིག་རིག་ཡོང་བར་སྨོན་།། ᡳᠴᡝ ᠠᠨᡳᠶᠠ ᠰᡝᠪᠵᡝᡢᡤᡝ᠈ ᡝᡵᡝ ᠠᠨᡳᠶᠠ ᡩᡝ ᠠᠮᠪᠠ ᠣᡵᡤᡠᠨ ᠣᡴᡳᠨᡳ (Iče aniya sebjengge, ere aniya de amba orgun okini!) Цагаан сарын шинэ жил баяр энх мэндэ хүргъе! / ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠠᠷ᠎ᠠ ᠤ᠋ᠨ ᠰᠢᠨ᠎ᠡ ᠵᠢᠯ ᠪᠠᠶᠠᠷ ᠡᠩᠬᠡ ᠮᠡᠨᠳᠤ ᠬᠦᠷᠭᠢᠶ᠎ᠡ Цагаан һараар! Сагаалганаар! Цаһан сар өлзәд багтҗ йовтн Чаа чыл биле
This morning, members of CUPE Local 79 delivered over 8,000 unique petitions to Councillor Shelley Carroll’s office, Chair of the City of Toronto Labour Relations Subcommittee and Budget Committee, during the last meeting of the City of Toronto Budget Committee.   The petitions, signed by Local 79 members who work for the City of Toronto, highlight the need for wages that keep pace with inflation and call for an end to unsafe and understaffed workplaces.     The workers are asking the City to deliver fair, inflation-adjusted wage increases, respect workers by addressing unmanageable workloads and chronic understaffing, ensure equity for part-time and casual workers and deliver workplace benefits that support the workers’ health and allow them the dignity to retire after a lifetime of public service.

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