this strike can go die.
I just heard something really disturbing on the radio.
For anyone who doesn't know (aka pretty much everyone who's reading this), Toronto is in the middle of a city workers strike. This means that our garbage bins are overflowing and now all the parks are turning into dumps. The city smells REALLY REALLY gross right now, which is why I'm not making any plans to go out. Even just going to the corner for an ice cream cone is pretty disgusting. We're coming up to our FOURTH WEEK, and there isn't an end in sight. :| Lovely. So far three weeks' worth of garbage piling up, with more ahead.
The place where we adopted Jet and Hank from, Toronto Animal Services, is run by the city, so their workers are all on strike too. I just heard an interview with a volunteer dog worker for Animal Services. He said that, near the beginning of the strike, he went there to go walk some dogs. He was disturbed to find that it was all closed up. He tried calling, but nobody answered the phone.
There's probably someone going in there and feeding the animals once a day, but they're being left alone for most of the day. Nobody can walk the dogs, who obviously need the exercise, and all the animals are cooped up. The cats' litter may not be getting scooped. It's disgusting.
Honestly, this strike is so stupid. The workers are pissed because David Miller (our mayor, fyi) is trying to take away a benefit that they have: they get something like 16 vacation days a year, and if they don't use them that year, they get to save them up. This means that they usually save up their vacation days so they can retire months early and still get paid. He wants to take it away from them, because, honestly, they don't need it. So of course they're throwing a fit and striking.
It's the STUPIDEST THING to strike over, and look at the consequences. First, we have our second garbage strike since the summer of 2006 (and it looks like this one is going to worse), which is so bad that nobody's going out because everything smells gross (and we can't even use our parks because they're acting as dumps), and it's affecting the animals at the shelter too. JUST SO THEY CAN HAVE THEIR STUPID VACATION BENEFIT.
Ugh. I'm so angry with them right now.
For anyone who doesn't know (aka pretty much everyone who's reading this), Toronto is in the middle of a city workers strike. This means that our garbage bins are overflowing and now all the parks are turning into dumps. The city smells REALLY REALLY gross right now, which is why I'm not making any plans to go out. Even just going to the corner for an ice cream cone is pretty disgusting. We're coming up to our FOURTH WEEK, and there isn't an end in sight. :| Lovely. So far three weeks' worth of garbage piling up, with more ahead.
The place where we adopted Jet and Hank from, Toronto Animal Services, is run by the city, so their workers are all on strike too. I just heard an interview with a volunteer dog worker for Animal Services. He said that, near the beginning of the strike, he went there to go walk some dogs. He was disturbed to find that it was all closed up. He tried calling, but nobody answered the phone.
There's probably someone going in there and feeding the animals once a day, but they're being left alone for most of the day. Nobody can walk the dogs, who obviously need the exercise, and all the animals are cooped up. The cats' litter may not be getting scooped. It's disgusting.
Honestly, this strike is so stupid. The workers are pissed because David Miller (our mayor, fyi) is trying to take away a benefit that they have: they get something like 16 vacation days a year, and if they don't use them that year, they get to save them up. This means that they usually save up their vacation days so they can retire months early and still get paid. He wants to take it away from them, because, honestly, they don't need it. So of course they're throwing a fit and striking.
It's the STUPIDEST THING to strike over, and look at the consequences. First, we have our second garbage strike since the summer of 2006 (and it looks like this one is going to worse), which is so bad that nobody's going out because everything smells gross (and we can't even use our parks because they're acting as dumps), and it's affecting the animals at the shelter too. JUST SO THEY CAN HAVE THEIR STUPID VACATION BENEFIT.
Ugh. I'm so angry with them right now.