Dilla
Senior Member
from the Star article
This is interesting. If Miller did concede these things, and council does not ratify the deal, and the union does, sparks are going to fly. Big time.
Pat Daley, a spokesperson for Local 416, backed up Ferguson's statement that the union had managed to "fight back all of the concessions the city sought from us."
All 118 pages of concessions? she was asked.
"Yes," she said.
Councillor Doug Holyday said this afternoon that the union must be putting a positive spin on the deal. And if they aren't, Mayor David Miller would have a lot of explaining to do.
Holyday, a member of the city's labour relations committee that gives direction to the bargaining officials, said he spoke to the mayor early today and the impression left was that the deal was done "within the parameters set by the labour relations committee."
Those parameters clearly included an end to the sick bank provisions that was a big sticking point in the talks.
"They couldn't have settled something contrary without coming back to the labour relations committee," said Holyday.
"If we were to take all the concessions off the table, let them keep sick bank and pay higher than we want to, the show would be over. The mayor would walk the plank. The mayor would be done. And he would have a tough time to get the deal ratified at council."
This is interesting. If Miller did concede these things, and council does not ratify the deal, and the union does, sparks are going to fly. Big time.