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Post by Max on Aug 15, 2007 15:31:57 GMT -3
The city has already annouced the tax increases over the next three years. Nearly 17 percent! Now the city wants a fair wage policy to ensure union employees have a better shot at winning city contracts. This will drive up your property taxes even higher.
If the mayor were truly a professional bus driver he'd apply the brakes. But he's not a professional anything, other than liar. If the mayor took a an aptitude test the results would say bus driver.
What do you think?
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Post by secretsquirrel on Aug 15, 2007 16:28:42 GMT -3
I don't want him driving any bus that I am on.
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Post by Max on Aug 15, 2007 17:04:52 GMT -3
I agree. But for now, he's our driver.
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Post by Max on Aug 15, 2007 17:39:28 GMT -3
We used to sing that song on the bus ride home from school.
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Post by Max on Oct 10, 2007 17:46:34 GMT -3
Fair wage policy goes before council
Posted By Rachel Punch
Council will be asked to consider a fair wage policy largely based on the province's model during its priorities meeting Oct. 17.
Ward 1 Coun. Joe Cimino provided a short description of the draft policy during a meeting at Tom Davies Square last week.
"I think this goes a long way in terms of appreciating the trades for what they are, and that's a good career," said Cimino.
"It's not about union or non-union, it's about providing a fair wage for all companies in town whether they are organized or not."
A fair wage policy sets minimum wage rates for employees of companies that receive major government contracts.
Council voted unanimously in June to adopt a fair wage policy in principle, 18 months after the previous council rejected a similar proposal. Cimino brought the motion to council in June.
Cimino and Ward 3 Coun. Claude Berthiaume, along with city staff, have been meeting during the last four months to develop the policy. The policy would apply to all industrial, commercial and institutional construction contracts above $160,000, which is the same threshold used by the province.
The committee looked at wage schedules used in other municipalities and decided to go with the one used by the province, which was the lowest.
"We decided that we would follow suit since it is the lowest, but it's still a fair wage," Cimino said.
The local committee would revisit Sudbury's threshold and wage schedule if the province makes changes, Cimino said.
The policy also lays out the fee the city would charge to do investigations if a wage complaint is made. The fees defray the cost of investigations and discourage frivolous complaints.
The committee decided the city should charge whatever it costs staff to conduct the investigation.
"We made sure we were not going to be gouging people," Cimino said.
Berthiaume said he wanted to make it clear the policy would apply only to city contracts.
Councillors will consider the policy at their next priorities meeting to be held at the Dr. Edgar Leclair Community Centre in Azilda on Oct. 17.
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Post by Max on Oct 18, 2007 16:06:57 GMT -3
City OKs fair wage policy for contracts; Unanimous approval caps about-face for councillors
Posted By Denis St. Pierre
Two years after its predecessor summarily rejected the idea, Greater Sudbury city council has adopted a so-called fair wage policy to govern pay rates for companies with municipal contracts.
"I'm very proud of this council," Ward 1 Coun. Joe Cimino said moments before he and his colleagues voted unanimously in favour of the fair wage policy.
"I think this council is going to make a very clear statement that the trades are very important to this city ... that they are very important for economic development."
Council voted in June to adopt a fair wage policy in principle. Council then consulted with the public and directed staff to prepare the official policy that was approved Wednesday.
The policy adopted by council will govern wages, benefits and hours of work rules for employees of any company granted a construction contract by the city worth $160,000 or more.
The policy sets minimum standards for wage and benefits rates for employees of contractors doing business with the city.
Similar policies have been in place for years within the provincial and federal governments and a minority of municipalities in Ontario and other provinces.
Greater Sudbury's policy mirrors the Ontario government's policy, which had the lowest wage schedule among the various policies that were reviewed by the city in recent months.
Still, the policy provides for "fair wages" that will serve the city and contractors well, Cimino said.
Proponents say fair wage policies generate little or no increases in the cost of municipal contracts, while producing benefits for the community as a whole.
Such policies not only help employees of low-wage contractors, they tend to support local companies and contribute to the recruitment and retention of local trades people, supporters say.
Cimino, a rookie councillor who made it a priority to revive the fair wage debate following his election last fall, said he is supremely confident the city will benefit from its new policy.
The policy will make it extremely difficult for low-wage contractors, particularly those from outside the community, to use paltry pay scales to secure municipal contracts, he said.
"We don't want companies from out of town coming in and under-cutting our companies by paying substandard wages."
In return, more local trades people will be employed and will contribute to the city's economy, he said.
The previous edition of city council hastily rejected the notion of a fair wage policy in late 2005. At the time, only two councillors who were subsequently re-elected in 2006 - Claude Berthiaume and Ron Dupuis - argued in favour of a fair wage policy.
There are six other members of the current edition of council who were around in 2005 when the fair wage proposal was shot down. None of those councillors - Frances Caldarelli, Ted Callaghan, Doug Craig, Janet Gasparini, Andre Rivest and Russ Thompson - indicated why they so thoroughly changed their minds.
Callaghan and Thompson, as well as Mayor John Rodriguez, were absent from Wednesday's meeting, making for a 10-0 vote by council in favour of the new policy. Rodriguez, also a newcomer on council, had previously indicated wholehearted support for a fair wage policy.
The city's new policy includes a process to investigate complaints of potential violations of the policy's provisions by a company with a municipal contract.
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Post by Max on Oct 18, 2007 16:11:26 GMT -3
What a pile of sheep.
According to Joe, a teacher, raising the wages isn't going to increase the costs of projects in this city. What a complete retard.
Meanwhile, those working for Science North and Dynamic Earth still make 8 $ an hour.
Joe promised to raise the money to put a roof on the Dow pool in Copper Cliff a few years ago. The pool was costing us 20,000 $ or so to operate before it closed. Joe never raised the money and ratepayers were stuck paying for it. And now the pool costs ratepayers over 100,000 $ a year to operate. All pools are costing over 1.1 million $ a year.
Have another retard sandwich Joe.
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