SOME FRIENDLY ADVICE TO TORONTO POLICE ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT DAVE WILSON
You can’t have it both ways make up your mind.
Dear Dave,
I have become concerned by your playing both sides in the Family Day debate.
You want the Board to give the day unilaterally to all employees, including all TPA members.
As you know all employees are not legally entitled to all public holidays. In the case of your members, they are not eligible to receive Employment Standards Act holidays – so any holidays they get are part of the collective bargaining agreement.
As for the civilian members of the TPA, you know that they currently receive holidays in excess of what the Employment Standards Act requires.
That said, the Board has agreed that this is a matter that should properly be dealt with at the bargaining table and not be a unilateral decision by the TPSB as you have requested.
You better than anyone knows that the TPA has taken the Board to arbitration because, a few years ago, it acted unilaterally on another matter.
On one hand you argue that we should not act unilaterally on matters that are to be negotiated, and on the other hand, you demand that we do act unilaterally on Family Day. You can’t have it both ways- make up your mind, Dave.
Then there is the matter of your appeal to the City. You left in a huff and walked out of bargaining when the Mayor suggested that perhaps police bargaining should be done province-wide. You loudly expressed your dissatisfaction at this ‘interference’.
Now it would appear that you want the Mayor and the City to take over the Board’s legal responsibility as your employer and give you the Family Day.
Some friendly advice, you can’t have it both ways -make up your mind, Dave.
Dr. Mukherjee
You can’t have it both ways make up your mind.
Dear Dave,
I have become concerned by your playing both sides in the Family Day debate.
You want the Board to give the day unilaterally to all employees, including all TPA members.
As you know all employees are not legally entitled to all public holidays. In the case of your members, they are not eligible to receive Employment Standards Act holidays – so any holidays they get are part of the collective bargaining agreement.
As for the civilian members of the TPA, you know that they currently receive holidays in excess of what the Employment Standards Act requires.
That said, the Board has agreed that this is a matter that should properly be dealt with at the bargaining table and not be a unilateral decision by the TPSB as you have requested.
You better than anyone knows that the TPA has taken the Board to arbitration because, a few years ago, it acted unilaterally on another matter.
On one hand you argue that we should not act unilaterally on matters that are to be negotiated, and on the other hand, you demand that we do act unilaterally on Family Day. You can’t have it both ways- make up your mind, Dave.
Then there is the matter of your appeal to the City. You left in a huff and walked out of bargaining when the Mayor suggested that perhaps police bargaining should be done province-wide. You loudly expressed your dissatisfaction at this ‘interference’.
Now it would appear that you want the Mayor and the City to take over the Board’s legal responsibility as your employer and give you the Family Day.
Some friendly advice, you can’t have it both ways -make up your mind, Dave.
Dr. Mukherjee
