City Workers Walk Off over “Mandatory Barbecue”

City workers walk off over “mandatory barbecue”

The Rover’s story about a spontaneous walkout at Sud‑Ouest borough over a “mandatory barbecue” goes into more detail about conditions at the borough: “Four out of the borough’s 10 garbage trucks are out of commission, two of its three sidewalk sweepers are in the shop and the team that used to repair sidewalks has been cut for the summer.” I’ve seen nothing about the situation in mainstream media, but Christopher Curtis is that old‑school guy, a…

City Workers Walk Off the Job over “Mandatory Barbecue” – The Rover

Thousands of garbage bags sat in the beating sun for six hours on Thursday morning, going uncollected by workers who organized a sit-in at Montreal’s Sud Ouest borough. Some 50 union members refused to leave the garage as of 6 a.m. after management threatened to dock a half day’s pay if they didn’t attend an “employee appreciation barbecue” next week. Sources in the union say the threat was the “straw that broke the camel’s back” amid budget cut…