[URBAN NOTE] "Toronto library workers soon in strike position"

[rfmcdonald]

So this will be happening. Perhaps I should go renew my card first.

The union representing the city’s library workers has asked the Labour Ministry for a “no board,” report after weeks of unproductive negotiations with the Toronto Public Library Board, CUPE announced Friday.

“We expect it (no board report) to arrive sometime today and we will be in a position of 17 days until a legal lockout or a strike,” said Maureen O’Reilly, president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 4948.

The board has not put forward one proposal to address the “crisis” of precarious work. Fifty per cent of the workforce works part-time under unstable working conditions, O’Reilly told a news conference Friday morning.