{"id":4859,"date":"2009-06-22T08:59:41","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T12:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=4859"},"modified":"2009-06-23T14:22:24","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T18:22:24","slug":"strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/06\/22\/strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Strike!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"City of Toronto strike 2009\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3656\/3649707172_04a6571082.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A few links for you:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&bull; The City of Toronto&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/labour-relations\/index.htm\">contingency plans<\/a> for the strike<br \/>\n&bull; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/article\/654346\">Talks collapse, City workers on strike<\/a> [ Toronto Star ]<br \/>\n&bull; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/national\/toronto\/toronto-city-workers-on-strike\/article1191072\/\">Toronto city workers on strike<\/a> [ Globe and Mail ]<br \/>\n&bull; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidetoronto.ca\/article\/71295\">It&#8217;s official: the strike is on<\/a> [ Toronto Community News ]<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: <\/strong>A few pics from today by Sean Marshall:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/7119320@N05\/3652891172\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Plastic-wrapped garbage bins\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3614\/3652891172_ed038de672.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Downtown garbage bins were wrapped with sticky plastic wrap, with signs (interestingly, in FWHA font usually used for highway signage) urging residents not to litter, though some were ripped open already. In the suburbs, wraps have yet to be applied.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/7119320@N05\/3652093059\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3381\/3652093059_ed5ce25920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>That is one way to stop people from using a recycling bin.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/7119320@N05\/3652891434\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Sun box\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2423\/3652891434_599ef7e7af.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Many copies of the Star must have been printed before midnight, meanwhile, the Sun&#8217;s reputation for colourful headlines remains untarnished.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/7119320@N05\/3652891790\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"At Matty Eckler\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2483\/3652891790_34a35c2665.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Though the Matty Eckler Recreation Centre had later editions of the Star\u00a0 sent to them&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/7119320@N05\/3652094339\/in\/photostream\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Not everyone got the message\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3545\/3652094339_abc6cb1691.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230; though not everybody got the message.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few links for you: &bull; The City of Toronto&#8217;s contingency plans for the strike &bull; Talks collapse, City workers on strike [ Toronto Star ] &bull; Toronto city workers on strike [ Globe and Mail ] &bull; It&#8217;s official: the strike is on [ Toronto Community News ] UPDATE: A few pics from today<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/06\/22\/strike\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Strike!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[313,12524,7531,405,19,341],"class_list":["post-4859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-matty-eckler-recreation-centre","tag-sean-marshall","tag-the-star","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-star"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Strike! 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