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Garbage Strike 2009 (pg. 14)
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| StereoPrincess |
any one know where to find the list of the added garbage dumping sites?
i tried looking all over the web but there was no info this morning.
EDIT: They will be annoucing the sites this afternoon:
| quote: | The City of Toronto will announce 19 additional trash drop-off locations tomorrow afternoon, after three days of frayed tempers and illegal dumping.
The city has issued about five dozen tickets for illegal dumping, officials said, while striking workers continued to block access to a number of designated drop-off sites.
“We understand the public’s frustration when they encounter delays trying to access city facilities or transfer stations,” city manager Joe Pennachetti told a news conference at Metro Hall, amid the din of chanting pickets outside.
The city would not reveal where the 19 new garbage drop-off sites would be located, but one was reportedly slated for Sunnyside Park, near a popular waterfront bicycle trail. Geoff Rathbone, the city’s general manager of solid waste, said all sites were approved by the provincial Environment Ministry.
“We’ve had to balance the local need for having drop-off depots close to the points of generation against some of the local concerns,” he said.
Tensions have flared at existing city drop-off sites over the past couple of days as citizens have been faced with long lineups and union blockades, but Mr. Pennachetti said the city and union picket captains were working to develop standard protocols.
As the strike by 24,000 municipal workers — including garbage collectors and daycare workers — overlapped with the first extreme heat alert of the season, many streetside bins were full to overflowing, emitting a foul stench compounded by the searing heat. The city opened seven cooling centres for vulnerable residents, but city pools remained closed.
More than 130 striking CUPE employees have asked to cross the picket line and return to work, a city official said.
At the Commissioner’s Road transfer station, a trickle of cars approached to drop off waste, while heat-weary pickets sat under a makeshift orange tent and a handful of city managers picked up garbage bags deposited at the gates.
Bill Steele, union picket captain at the facility, criticized management for failing to redirect a commercial load of about 30 bags, many filled with cardboard and organic waste, including flour and carrots.
“It’s been years to try to get residents not to do that,” Mr. Steele said, noting the truck should have been directed to a recycling facility. “Management did nothing; they just picked it up.”
Mr. Rathbone acknowledged the city’s failure to sort the garbage, but said with limits on staff and access to the transfer stations, “we unfortunately cannot process the organic material as we normally do in terms of treating it and manufacturing compost.”
David McKeown, Toronto’s medical officer of health, moved to assuage health concerns arising from the accumulation of uncollected trash at city-designated sites.
“It may be unattractive, cause odors, but this will not cause human disease,” he said, noting the city is taking steps to reduce the impact, including pest and odor control at temporary dump sites and asking residents to double-bag their trash.
As Canada Day fast approaches, Mr. Pennachetti said the city “remains hopeful” there will be a speedy resolution to the strike, but for the time being all city-run holiday events remain cancelled. Should the strike end by the weekend, he added, some of those events may be able to go forward on a “modified basis.”
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| Intangible |
| quote: | Originally posted by Moral Hazard
Additionally, let's not forget that this isn't just the sanitation workers... it's all inside and outside workers... surely, not all city of toronto workers are essential.
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Clearly you didnt read my post that well...
| quote: | Originally posted by Intangible
Dalton needs to force the garbage collectors back to work. If OTHER city workers (who are very valuable to the city but not essential to the city) want to keep striking, let them but garbage collectors are NEEDED to keep this city functioning. |
If Vancouver considers them an essential service I dont see why we wouldnt. |
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| smuncky |
http://www.toronto.ca/labour-relations/index.htm
Transfer Stations
Two transfer stations will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week to accept both residential and commercial garbage:
Bermondsey Transfer Station
188 Bermondsey Rd
(Eglinton Ave. E. & Victoria Park Ave. area)
Ingram Transfer Station
50 Ingram Dr
(Keele St. & Eglinton Ave. W. area)
In addition, five transfer stations will be open 12 hours a day, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., seven days a week, to accept both residential and commercial garbage. Remember to double bag.
Disco Transfer Station
120 Disco Rd
(Dixon Rd. & Carlingview Dr area)
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Dufferin Transfer Station
35 Vanley Cr
(Chesswood Dr & Sheppard Ave. W. area)
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Victoria Park Transfer Station
3350 Victoria Park Ave
(Victoria Park Ave & Finch Ave. E. area)
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Commissioners Street Transfer Station
400 Commissioners St
(Lake Shore Blvd. E. & Logan Ave area)
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Scarborough Transfer Station
1 Transfer Pl
(Markham Rd & Sheppard Ave. E. area)
Additional residential drop-off locations will be announced should the labour disruption continue for more than five days. |
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| d-form |
My buddy was telling me that if he pickets the union pays him 200/week while they're on strike. Thats more than i expected. If everyone got that the union would be paying out 4.8 million a week. How long can the union afford to pay out 4.8 million a week.
I wonder how long the workers would have to be on strike for the city to be able to afford our new street cars? |
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| ChemEnhanced |
| I don't see Garbage Collection as an essential service. People and business owners can remove their own garbage if they're not too lazy. |
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| Superstring |
| quote: | Originally posted by ChemEnhanced
I don't see Garbage Collection as an essential service. People and business owners can remove their own garbage if they're not too lazy. |
And you can drive yourself to the emergency room when you don't feel well.
And hose down your house when it catches on fire. |
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| kaniz |
| quote: | Originally posted by ChemEnhanced
I don't see Garbage Collection as an essential service. People and business owners can remove their own garbage if they're not too lazy. |
In more rural areas I would agree with this. When you have 1 house a few KM apart and the majority of that population drives / has access to a car to take them to a landfill - sure.
In a major city? not so much. The density of population starts to make this an essential service as a fairly large portion of it may not have access to a car to take their garbage elsewhere, and do you really want thousands of people hauling multiple bags of garbage onto public transit to get it to the nearest dump/transfer station?
The garbage starts to pile up, starts to attract mice, rats, bugs and starts to become a public health/safety issue. |
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| StereoPrincess |
| quote: | Originally posted by smuncky
Additional residential drop-off locations will be announced should the labour disruption continue for more than five days. |
they are announcing 19 more this afternoon. |
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| StereoPrincess |
| quote: | Originally posted by Superstring
And you can drive yourself to the emergency room when you don't feel well.
And hose down your house when it catches on fire. |
well techinically you can pay a private company that would probably drive you better/faster and put your house out better. |
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| Moral Hazard |
| quote: | Originally posted by StereoPrincess
well techinically you can pay a private company that would probably drive you better/faster and put your house out better. |
In fact, until the 1900 these services were only available through private companies. |
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| gummybear |
Can someone clarify something for me..
If someone illegally dumps in front of the dump sites, because they are being blocked. they get a by law ticket..so, are they also giving tickets to or charging the s that are blocking the public???? |
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| Abercrombie |
| people in a picket line don't get charges if they remain on the sidewalk and maintain movement. If they do not keep going in circles, they can be charged with loitering. |
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