A new development may be designed to end the stalemate between the City of London and its striking inside workers.
A special, confidential meeting of city council's Corporate Services Committee will be held at 6pm Thursday, followed at 7pm by an emergency meeting of full council, also held in-camera. Labour relations is the only item on the agenda. The two sides haven't negotiated since talks broke off last week.
Meanwhile, CUPE Local 101 has issued a statement ahead of the meeting.
“City council should use this opportunity to discuss ways to end this strike,” says President Shelley Navarroli. “As elected leaders, they should be asking why are workers still out on strike when we have offered different options to end this strike, including sending the outstanding issues to neutral third party for arbitration so workers can go back to work for London residents.”
Thursday marks day 26th in the strike by members of CUPE Local 101 who process permits and conduct other inside city business. Talks broke off last week with each side accusing the other of refusing to budge on demands. The union offered to send negotiations to binding arbitration but city negotiators declined.
