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<title>blogTO Recent Comments: Morning Brew: Strike Savings, Highway Robbery, City Council Hiatus, and a Flying Pig</title>
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<title>Jonathan</title>
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Was it Bob Rae that legalized scabs? Or Mike Harris? Had to be one of those two!]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2009/06/morning_brew_strike_savings_highway_robbery_city_council_hiatus_and_a_flying_pig/#c630435</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:59:28 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>keven</title>
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it's not illegal here to scab, but those workers can't be hired full time under the labour act.  They will be laid off once an agreement is reached.]]>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:50:48 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Breanna</title>
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Last year at coachella, Roger Water's flying pig was accidentally released, and the reward was $10,000 and festival tickets for life.

http://www.reuters.com/article/musicNews/idUSN2934219420080430

Maybe there is something more to the flying pig figure of speech than we thought..]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2009/06/morning_brew_strike_savings_highway_robbery_city_council_hiatus_and_a_flying_pig/#c630360</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:50:34 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Gloria</title>
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"How do unions prevent employers from hiring new staff anyways? Has this been tried in the past?" 

Happens all the time. It's called "scabbing." Highly contentious move because it basically nulls the bargaining power of workers; it's actually legally regulated in many places around the world.  

I'm not sure about Ontario, but Quebec has a ban on the use of replacement workers during a strike. ]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2009/06/morning_brew_strike_savings_highway_robbery_city_council_hiatus_and_a_flying_pig/#c630354</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:35:00 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>meh</title>
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re: hiring new staff.  That might work for a few jobs, but there are many that are not easily filled.  Example: 1000's of childcare workers - they would all need to be processed, police checked, etc, and that takes time.  Other examples - most union engineering staff/technologists - there are shortages of these skills already, so finding 500-1000 at the drop of a hat is not so easy, and you will probably end up paying them as much as the people on strike. Same with computer/IT people, accounting, etc etc.  

The most visible effect of the strike is garbage pick up, but there are many many other jobs done at the City, and most of can't be replaced with students. ]]>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:22:57 PDT</pubDate>
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<title>Mike W</title>
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The city should use the money saved to contract some people to resume regular trash take out and motivated students to take over appropriate city jobs.

How do unions prevent employers from hiring new staff anyways? Has this been tried in the past?]]>
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<link>http://www.blogto.com/city/2009/06/morning_brew_strike_savings_highway_robbery_city_council_hiatus_and_a_flying_pig/#c630320</link>
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<category>Toronto, City</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:15:03 PDT</pubDate>
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