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rfmcdonaldCUPE has just threatened Centreville Amusement Park, a children's amusement park located in the Toronto Islands, with threats of pickets and threatened delays to visitors if the suffering park set up a private shuttle service.
See a reaction here, for instance.
I would have gone to the Toronto Islands several times by now if not for the strike. I am not amused.
The city workers' union is trying to make generally hostile Torontonians care, but even the left-leaning Toronto Star points out that the banking of sick days is mostly gone elsewhere in Ontario.
A behind-the-scenes solution to open Centreville, Toronto Island's privately owned amusement park shuttered since the strike began, was quashed last Friday with a threat by CUPE 416 to picket park customers.
Shawnda Walker, Centreville's director of marketing, said the month-old civic workers' strike has cost the park $3 million in sales. The majority of its 400 employees, mostly students working for the summer, have been thrown out of work.
"We never thought it would go this long," Walker said yesterday. "They are killing our summer. "They're killing the summer for the little kids ... and they are killing the summer for our students who want to work and pay for university," she said.
Last week the park's owners tried to lay the groundwork to open despite the strike, something the city was receptive to, she said.
To help gain the union's blessing, they offered to make it clear to everyone they were operating under the generosity of CUPE 416.
Just 20 minutes after CUPE received the written proposal, the park got a terse answer.
"The Union will review all of its recourse including but not limited to picketing to ensure that the work of the Local 416 bargaining unit is respected," union officials stated in an awkwardly worded e-mail.
Later, they told Centreville they'd delay customers, set up pickets on the island and at the boats arranged to ferry people to the park, Walker said.
See a reaction here, for instance.
I would have gone to the Toronto Islands several times by now if not for the strike. I am not amused.
The city workers' union is trying to make generally hostile Torontonians care, but even the left-leaning Toronto Star points out that the banking of sick days is mostly gone elsewhere in Ontario.
