City Council speaks up for cleaners
MEDIA RELEASE April 12, 2012 City Council speaks up for cleaners, votes to review contracting out of cleaning services Toronto, ON – The Justice & Dignity for Cleaners campaign won an important victory at City Hall yesterday when Council voted 29-12 to prevent City Manager from awarding contracts for cleaning service without Council approval. The [...]
Fired Cleaners Demand Reinstatement and Respect at Rally in Toronto
Two dozen people rallied earlier today outside 8 King St. East in Toronto. They called on the building’s new cleaning contractor, Amphora Maintenance Services, to reinstate terminated employees and respect their wishes to have a voice at work. “With the previous cleaning company we won a small raise, better vacation pay and we were going [...]
Cleaners appeal to City Councillors not to contract out their jobs
This video was submitted to City Hall by the City’s cleaners.
Consequences of outsourcing city cleaning Jobs
By Robert Dryden and Jim Stanford Canadians were justifiably outraged when Electro-Motive, owned by Caterpillar, threatened its London, Ont., workers with a 50 per cent pay cut and then left Canada in search of cheaper labour in the U.S. In Toronto, a similar story is unfolding, only it’s city council — not an industrial giant [...]
City’s plans to contract out 1000 cleaning jobs should be stopped, say Hulchanski and other Toronto academics
On Feb 16, 2012 David Hulchanski and Grace-Edward Galabuzi presented an Open Letter asking Council to stop contracting out cleaning jobs. The letter has been signed by 100 leading academics from the University of Toronto, Ryerson and York University. Citing the alarming growth of poverty and precarious, low-paying jobs in Toronto, the letter urges Council [...]
Stop contracting out Toronto cleaning jobs, academics say
Toronto must stop contracting out municipal cleaning jobs to stem the alarming growth of working poor in the city, academics and community leaders say. “Turning good jobs into poverty wage jobs will only deepen the current job crisis,” they say in an open letter to Mayor Rob Ford and council being released Thursday. “Toronto’s budget [...]
City Council vote on Cleaners’ Jobs
On Jan 17, 2012, City Council considered changes to Mayor Ford’s budget as well as an omnibus motion by Councillor Josh Colle to reverse many of the proposed cuts to services that residents depend on. A majority of the Councillors supported Councillor Colle’s motion and it passed with 23 votes for the motion and 21 [...]
City cleaners in safety suits bring message to Councillors at Monday’s rally
Toronto, ON – City cleaners facing possible job cuts made their voices heard outside City Hall Monday night at the Rally for Toronto. As City Council continues to discuss proposed cuts, cleaners asked Councillors to consider the far-reaching implications of cutting hundreds, if not thousands, of living-wage jobs. Cleaners wore protective suits, goggles, and gas [...]
Justice and Dignity for Cleaners
Hundreds of City cleaners’ jobs may be contracted out without a chance for our elected Councillors to weigh in and vote on this issue. The cleaners at the Toronto Police Service are the first group under attack. Their jobs may be cut and handed over to private cleaning companies. Other cleaners, like those at Toronto [...]
Justice and Dignity for Cleaners: Nezrene Edwards
The Mayor of Toronto wants to outsource the jobs of hundreds of city cleaners and turn them over to low-wage contractors. There are already too many jobs in Toronto that pay poverty wages. Good Jobs for All wants Toronto to move forward instead of backward. We think cleaners in every sector deserve to make a [...]