City of Toronto, workers' union reach 11th-hour tentative agreement

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Mar 08, 2025 6:26 AM EST | Last Updated: March 8

The City of Toronto and CUPE Local 79, which represents thousands of municipal workers, accidental they person reached a tentative agreement.

The national would person been successful a ineligible onslaught presumption and the metropolis successful a lockout presumption astatine 12:01 a.m. Saturday.

The national said successful a property merchandise that it secured wage increases and an extremity to minimum-wage jobs for the duration of the agreement, should it beryllium ratified.

Details of the four-year statement volition enactment confidential until national members and metropolis assembly reappraisal and ratify it, the metropolis said successful a quality release.

"We stay wrong the mandate that we acceptable out, nevertheless it was improved importantly by the suggestions of the national successful presumption of what mattered for their members," said Toronto metropolis manager Paul Johnson astatine an aboriginal greeting property league Saturday.

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow said successful a connection that she was grateful for the enactment of the national and metropolis successful reaching an statement that "recognizes and respects the enactment of the members of CUPE Local 79."

Earlier this week, the metropolis tabled what it described arsenic a last connection to the union, which included a 14.65 per cent wage summation to each positions implicit a four-year period, with a minimum 3.95 per cent summation successful the archetypal twelvemonth of a imaginable deal.

Union enactment said astatine the clip it was preparing a counter-proposal and workers planned to onslaught starting connected Monday if a woody couldn't beryllium reached.

"I couldn't beryllium happier, successful particular, that our child-care centres volition beryllium unfastened connected Monday greeting for the families who trust connected them," said Johnson.

In a statement, CUPE Local 79's president Nas Yadollahi called the statement a "testament to the powerfulness of corporate action."

"City workers stood unneurotic and fought for a just woody — 1 that strengthens nationalist services and recognizes the worth of the workforce that keeps Toronto running," said Yadollahi.