{"id":5722,"date":"2009-07-27T12:09:24","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T16:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=5722"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:14:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:14:58","slug":"john-lorinc-getting-to-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/07\/27\/john-lorinc-getting-to-yes\/","title":{"rendered":"JOHN LORINC: Getting to yes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"garbage by squeakyrat\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2592\/3715600979_15d01fde7a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"john lorinc\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/images\/feature-graphics\/feature-lorinc.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"85\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How did they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/News\/GTA\/article\/672298\">get to yes<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>The City of Toronto&#8217;s daily press releases, which I am fortunate enough to receive, offer some telling clues.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks into the strike, the City began issuing a daily release, saying that negotiations with the two civic employee unions were continuing.<br \/>\nNothing more, and no details. Just that the municipal negotiators were on the job.<\/p>\n<p>It was an empty media relations gesture, evidently meant to do little else but counter union accusations that the City&#8217;s team had stopped bargaining.<\/p>\n<p>But then something changed. After publicizing its formal offer about ten days ago, the City began offering up bits and pieces of information about the revival of various services, such as the processing of building permits filed prior to the strike.<\/p>\n<p>Why the shift? A month in, most Torontonians had grudgingly acclimatized themselves to strike conditions, finding alternative child care, doing the occasional trash schlep, and so on. And in a tactical move that essentially mirrored this broad adaptive response, the City decided to resume business as normal, as much as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Which is how we arrived at a fork in the road on Friday. It&#8217;s absolutely true that the Sunday midnight deadline did focus everyone&#8217;s attention. But CUPE&#8217;s game-changing gambit also forced the union and the City to recognize that human beings, even pampered North Americans, have a deep capacity to become accustomed to conditions that are much worse than closed pools and mounds of trash.<\/p>\n<p>The logic of any strike depends on the imposition of public inconvenience. When said inconvenience abates, unions have lost their best weapon. But this is a double-edged sword, as City officials surely came to understand. After all, if we learn to do without municipal services, we&#8217;ll become even less agreeable about paying local taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Outside the bargaining room, life went on, and so they had to end the strike.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/squeakybear\/3715600979\/in\/pool-618920@N25\">Ron Squeakyrat<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did they get to yes? 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