Please scroll down to see videos of Tim presenting while monitoring City Hall decisions, leading fights to protect members and services from cuts and contacting out at City Hall.
Local 79 needs to re-engage with budget and decision-making processes at the City of Toronto, TCHC and Bridgepoint Hospital.
I will lead an effort for Local 79 to provide better support for members facing challenges for the remainder of the COVID - 19 pandemic. The COVID -1 9 pandemic has brought many challenges for members, many who have been essential workers have been getting communities throughout our City through this.
Local 79 Health and Safety representatives have been working hard to support members' health and safety concerns during the pandemic. However, many challenges remain, and are rising again as our employers' return many members to work in a "hybrid" work models with less protective protocols.
Our employers should continue to put members' health and safety first, maintaining the highest possible standings of health protocols, in masking and social distancing. Even though the province no longer mandates these standards, taking them away completely puts members at risk.
There are still hundreds of members whose jobs have been impacted by the vaccine mandate, many having medical exemption accommodations needs still unmet. There has to be a quicker solution than having members wait many months. There have already been other resolutions in other Cities, with several arbitration and court decisions which could guide a quicker resolution.
I can lead a collective effort get Local 79 and members prepared to deal with predictable upcoming challenges of potential job loss through cuts to services, work reorganizations and attacks on our contracts as employers may seek to impose the costs of the pandemic on your jobs, services you provide and the communities you serve.
I have years of experience monitoring City, TCHC and Bridgepoint Hospitals' budgets and decision-making to monitor threats to jobs, services (see below for history of fighting for jobs and services).
In order to prevent cuts and contracting out we need to be there when policy debates are happening.
Local 79 needs to re-engage with budget and decision-making processes at the City of Toronto, TCHC and Bridgepoint Hospital. We also have to get prepared for potential attacks on our Collective Agreements, stand up collectively against any attempts at concession bargaining and put an end to employer divide and conquer strategies to get concession in other bargaining units and impose them on Local 79 members.
We will fight this together.
Tim fighting for living wage, reliable hours of work for City of Toronto and contracted cleaners, through a 'job quality assessment tool' to assess and ensure decent standard of all cleaners. The fight for improved working conditions was a labour-community fight with Labour Council, other unions and community allies
Tim fighting in collaboration with community allies for the City to open more shelter beds in 2018 budget when a indigenous man experiencing homelessness dies after Mayor and counsellors voted not to sustain Shelter budget in 2017.
Tim both fighting for contingency plan amongst child care Centre closures, and expressing appreciation for the Child Care Growth Strategy which was achieved through activism of Local 79, other unions and community child care allies.
Tim fighting to stop the City of Toronto for contacting out of cleaning services at Police Stations in the 2012 City Budget. Local 79 and allies were able to stop limit contracting out to a few stations, stopping the Ford brother's plan to "contact out everything not nailed down" in it's tracks.
Here is Tim presenting at the Police Services Board on the important safety and security work cleaners do, keeping Officers and the public safe, and defending the "Good Jobs" coalition effort to keep the public informed.
Tim fighting for expansion of Recreation programs, in the Community Recreation Growth plan (2018-2020), as the waiting list for Recreational programs sores above 200,000 needed spaces. This labour-community effort increased programs, hours/jobs for Recreation workers.
Tim publicly fighting in Solidarity with community allies raising the alarm bells of a shelter system in crisis in Toronto. Together this fight achieved victory when Mayor Tory conceded to call a state of emergency and increase Shelter beds. We achieve great things for our members and the vulnerable in our communities we serve when we fight alongside allies.
Tim has over a decade of experience fighting at City Hall for members jobs and services, by monitoring Budget Reports, and specifically "budget Variance reports" which identify the 'gap' between the number of jobs / hours the City "says" it will fill, and the number of jobs/shifts the City actually fills in various services. In this presentation, Tim urges City to reduce gapping in LTC and Recreation, where gapping had become a chronic challenge.
Tim hammering home the core issue of underfunding of TCHC in yet another attempt by the City for transfer social housing units from TCHC to community non-profits.
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