CUPE Local 416 offers to freeze three-year wage

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CUPE Local 416, a union representing 6,000 outside workers is willing to freeze its members’ compensations for three years, in order to deflect a possible lockout of city workers next month.

The announcement was made by CUPE Local 416 President Mark Ferguson at Toronto City Hall Friday morning. Ferguson said the wage freeze would be supportive in preserving city services.

Ferguson said: “We’re announcing that CUPE Local 416 is willing to take a three-year wage freeze, to help maintain services threatened by the current city budget. A wage freeze by our members would contribute $8.5 million each year and $25.5 million over three years.”

According to the union’s public offer, all essential components of the combined agreement would be frozen for three years, which includes job security provisions that the city has maintained need to be revisited.

Toronto’s Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday said: “To put it forward in a media conference isn’t exactly the way that should happen. If they want to put forward something like this, which we’re happy to hear, they should put it forward in negotiations. That’s where we can discuss the matter.

“There was no interest on the part of the city negotiators to sit with us, so we felt there was no other way to get our message out there other than appealing to Torontonians directly.”

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