Our City Employees - by Moses

      These guys are our fire fighters, police officers, sanitation operators, postal workers, and the list goes on and on.  How much does the average city worker make?  $26-27 Hour if you're a postal worker or sanitation worker for the city of Toronto.  As a fireman or a cop you'll see $33/Hour to start on the job.  Are the unions losing clout while inflation is on the rise? or, do workers still have rights in bringing to the table for the next collective bargaining agreement the concern of being low-balled in negotiation for minimum salary.  If it was attacked in this manner the minimum wage in each sect being discussed would go up by $8-9 Hour.  Would anyone really suffer in the least if the cop and fireman got $40/hour to start while the city sanitation workers get bumped up to $34/Hour?

  While it may be a luxury to have money the reality is that most unions today are forsaking and low-balling on salary issues for the vast majority, while 1000-2000 VP's see 20% increase in pay following the collective bargaining process - with the common worker seeing less than 5% wage increase.  This is what the Teachers Union in Canada has experienced in its' history.  The Board of Education see raises in excess of 15% and the teachers were lucky if they saw 4-5%.  It would stand to reason that the well off cannot put their needs ahead of the masses in negotiating a collective bargaining agreement.  It should work both ways, and if that were the case we could have all our teachers, fire fighters, police officers, sanitation operators, postal workers, and management within each sect (including all the VP salaries) go up incrementally at the same rate.  At this point the average salary could be raised as high as $50/Hour in each of the aforementioned sects of employment at the sacrifice of an exec getting a fat bonus for being able to say he's more of an asset than the front-line people of the City of Toronto.