Comments on: Pictures From Day Three of the City of Toronto Strike http://laforet.ca/2009/06/25/pictures-from-day-three-of-the-city-of-toronto-strike/ John Laforet - Ward 43 Toronto City Council Candidate Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:39:18 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Loser List #4: Municipal Workers of Toronto + Mayor David Miller « TheTevyTownTranscripts http://laforet.ca/2009/06/25/pictures-from-day-three-of-the-city-of-toronto-strike/comment-page-1/#comment-46131 Loser List #4: Municipal Workers of Toronto + Mayor David Miller « TheTevyTownTranscripts Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:35:48 +0000 http://laforet.ca/?p=603#comment-46131 [...] Pictures From Day Three of the City of Toronto Strike [...] [...] Pictures From Day Three of the City of Toronto Strike [...]

]]> By: Rags http://laforet.ca/2009/06/25/pictures-from-day-three-of-the-city-of-toronto-strike/comment-page-1/#comment-46083 Rags Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:35:39 +0000 http://laforet.ca/?p=603#comment-46083 As many residents of Toronto face the challenges that the current garbage strike has left them, one man has taken a new approach to a solution. Roofer Dave of Toronto has suspended his regular business tasks, and now offers residents a way to get rid of their trash in a safe and environmentally friendly way. Trash is collected for merely five dollars per twenty pound bag and taken to licenced disposal facilities for disposal (NOT THE CITY TEMPORARY DUMP SITES) Dave's plan is to ease the pain residents are feeling not add to it. According to Roofer Dave, "We are currently working on recycling efforts to divert as much as we can from land fills. We will have more on this as facilities get back to us." Finding Roofer Dave on his route is easy, simply follow @fivebucksabag on Twitter to see where and when he may be in your neighbourhood or contact him through his web site at www.fivebucksabag.com. As many residents of Toronto face the challenges that the current garbage strike has left them, one man has taken a new approach to a solution. Roofer Dave of Toronto has suspended his regular business tasks, and now offers residents a way to get rid of their trash in a safe and environmentally friendly way. Trash is collected for merely five dollars per twenty pound bag and taken to licenced disposal facilities for disposal (NOT THE CITY TEMPORARY DUMP SITES) Dave’s plan is to ease the pain residents are feeling not add to it. According to Roofer Dave, “We are currently working on recycling efforts to divert as much as we can from land fills. We will have more on this as facilities get back to us.” Finding Roofer Dave on his route is easy, simply follow @fivebucksabag on Twitter to see where and when he may be in your neighbourhood or contact him through his web site at http://www.fivebucksabag.com.

]]> By: remi stevens http://laforet.ca/2009/06/25/pictures-from-day-three-of-the-city-of-toronto-strike/comment-page-1/#comment-45911 remi stevens Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:29:39 +0000 http://laforet.ca/?p=603#comment-45911 Great photos! Makes you wonder if the media companies are still paying for the garbage can ads. Advertising works in reverse if you tack it onto a pile of trash. Gotta agree with Al here. People are working 50-60 hours a week to keep themselves going. If the banks holding you in debt and your employer's paying you squat, you're little more than a slave right? Keep working yourself to death so you don't starve. I'm in a union, i get a decent wage. I hate when people try and criticize those of us who are getting a fair deal. Garbage men make a decent income doing work most people would not handle. They are defending the fair deal that they've have been receiving. Those of you working jobs for a pittance in the private sector need to wake up and realize that you are getting ripped off. Great photos! Makes you wonder if the media companies are still paying for the garbage can ads. Advertising works in reverse if you tack it onto a pile of trash.

Gotta agree with Al here. People are working 50-60 hours a week to keep themselves going. If the banks holding you in debt and your employer’s paying you squat, you’re little more than a slave right? Keep working yourself to death so you don’t starve.

I’m in a union, i get a decent wage. I hate when people try and criticize those of us who are getting a fair deal. Garbage men make a decent income doing work most people would not handle. They are defending the fair deal that they’ve have been receiving. Those of you working jobs for a pittance in the private sector need to wake up and realize that you are getting ripped off.

]]> By: Al http://laforet.ca/2009/06/25/pictures-from-day-three-of-the-city-of-toronto-strike/comment-page-1/#comment-44784 Al Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:00:38 +0000 http://laforet.ca/?p=603#comment-44784 The people of this city make a poor example to follow considering the fact that there is such complaint re the city workers being on strike. Ordinary residential waste collection, under normal circumstances, would have resumed on Tuesday. How can the volume of waste being produced be so great that on Monday everybody had to be going to the transfer station? If there was no strike, and you had a Thursday collection day, than the waste would still be on your property on Wednesday anyway, regardless of the weather. It is high time that people understand the true value of labour organization and rally together, that is to say all those that are a unit of labour, to push for the private sector to finally follow the lead of the public sector in establishing a work environment that recognizes the importance of the employees that perform the work rather than holding people under pressure. People are trying to provide for themselves and their families, private sector organization slashes and burns wages and benefits at the expense of employees for the sake of an increased profit margin. The people of this city make a poor example to follow considering the fact that there is such complaint re the city workers being on strike. Ordinary residential waste collection, under normal circumstances, would have resumed on Tuesday. How can the volume of waste being produced be so great that on Monday everybody had to be going to the transfer station? If there was no strike, and you had a Thursday collection day, than the waste would still be on your property on Wednesday anyway, regardless of the weather. It is high time that people understand the true value of labour organization and rally together, that is to say all those that are a unit of labour, to push for the private sector to finally follow the lead of the public sector in establishing a work environment that recognizes the importance of the employees that perform the work rather than holding people under pressure. People are trying to provide for themselves and their families, private sector organization slashes and burns wages and benefits at the expense of employees for the sake of an increased profit margin.

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