Tim fighting for living wage, reliable hours of work for City of Toronto and contracted cleaners, through a 'job quality assessment tool' to assess and ensure decent standard of all cleaners. The fight for improved working conditions was a labour-community fight with Labour Council, other unions and community allies
Tim fighting in collaboration with community allies for the City to open more shelter beds in 2018 budget when a indigenous man experiencing homelessness dies after Mayor and counsellors voted not to sustain Shelter budget in 2017.
Tim both fighting for contingency plan amongst child care Centre closures, and expressing appreciation for the Child Care Growth Strategy which was achieved through activism of Local 79, other unions and community child care allies.
Tim fighting to stop the City of Toronto for contacting out of cleaning services at Police Stations in the 2012 City Budget. Local 79 and allies were able to stop limit contracting out to a few stations, stopping the Ford brother's plan to "contact out everything not nailed down" in it's tracks.
Here is Tim presenting at the Police Services Board on the important safety and security work cleaners do, keeping Officers and the public safe, and defending the "Good Jobs" coalition effort to keep the public informed.
Tim fighting for expansion of Recreation programs, in the Community Recreation Growth plan (2018-2020), as the waiting list for Recreational programs sores above 200,000 needed spaces. This labour-community effort increased programs, hours/jobs for Recreation workers.
Tim publicly fighting in Solidarity with community allies raising the alarm bells of a shelter system in crisis in Toronto. Together this fight achieved victory when Mayor Tory conceded to call a state of emergency and increase Shelter beds. We achieve great things for our members and the vulnerable in our communities we serve when we fight alongside allies.
Tim has over a decade of experience fighting at City Hall for members jobs and services, by monitoring Budget Reports, and specifically "budget Variance reports" which identify the 'gap' between the number of jobs / hours the City "says" it will fill, and the number of jobs/shifts the City actually fills in various services. In this presentation, Tim urges City to reduce gapping in LTC and Recreation, where gapping had become a chronic challenge.
Tim hammering home the core issue of underfunding of TCHC in yet another attempt by the City for transfer social housing units from TCHC to community non-profits.
Please scroll down to see videos of myself presenting, public speaking during my leadership roles at CUPE Local 79, while monitoring City Hall decisions, leading fights to protect members and services from cuts and contacting out at City Hall.
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