City Releases Details Of 2,300 Job Cuts

First Posted: 11/30/11 05:24 PM ET Updated: 12/02/11 01:18 PM ET


The city has released a document showing how it intends to eliminate 2,300 jobs in the new year.


The job cuts were announced earlier this week when Mayor Rob Ford released his proposed 2012 operating budget.


Ford's plan to balance the city's budget includes a 2.5 per cent property tax increase and a hike in TTC fares, along with the job cuts.


Under the plan released Wednesday afternoon, the biggest cuts will affect unionized positions. A total of 666 unionized workers will get notices. Another 643 vacant positions won't be filled.


Forty-eight non-union employees will be laid-off, while a further 94 vacant non-union positions will be eliminated.


A further 887 jobs will be eliminated at agencies, boards and commissions attached to the city, like the Toronto Public Library, the TTC and Toronto Police Services.


According to the city's fact sheet the police will lose 372 civilian and uniform employees, although all of those cuts will come from vacant positions. The TTC will be reduced by 324 people. And the library will lose 152 union and non-union positions.


The city points out that 230 of the vacant positions eliminated in the city operating division reflect people who chose to accept a buy-out package earlier this year.


Those same vacant positions also include a decision to defer hiring 68 firefighters and 36 EMS paramedics.


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The city has released a document showing how it intends to eliminate 2,300 jobs in the new year. The job cuts were announced earlier this week when Mayor Rob Ford released hi...
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relentless63
02:43 PM on 12/01/2011
On Tuesday, Ford’s Executive Committee tried to sell a Waste & Water Budget that included program cuts and weakening of standards that would have harmed the environment. The lobby pushed hard, threatening as usual to take their marbles and go home if they weren’t allowed to further poison the already poisoned atmosphere. Fortunately, citizens won with a vote to reject the proposal to subsidize water rates for companies that break the City's pollution regulations. I applaud them and abhor the mayor's position.
12:50 PM on 12/01/2011
Why paying all these people? Only in banana or totalitarian countries the government jobs are far better paid and safe than in the private sector. But at least in these countries, if the government/municipality wants to do something (building a subway for instance) it will have it done. In Toronto we are paying all these bureaucrats with big salaries which are secret (why secret when is public money ?) and they cannot deliver anything. The whole system is so dysfunctional that it cannot deliver anything. Is that simple. Then the question : why paying all these people ?
It bothers me though that the cuts will affect the libraries which were one of the few bright spots in all this Toronto municipality mess.
12:19 AM on 12/01/2011
And what you do not see is the mayor taking a cut in pay do you . And Like I have said before they are only Good ubtil they get in and than you see there true side and that is always bad because they do not care for the people of Toronto only thier selfs and people you know that this is true.
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piceaglauca
The picture says it all....
10:41 PM on 11/30/2011
Ah, attrition, retirements and seasonal shifts will take up these numbers. Just a drop in the bucket. The real deal would be a purge of City Hall. Start looking at these lucrative union contracts and tell these people enough is enough with the benefits, pension plans, sick day pay outs and holidays. The days of drinking at the trough are over. Stop picking on the social service jobs like pools and libraries. Social recreation is important to low income people. Cut this out then ad to the crime and welfare programs. Ford, you just don't get it. Look around the city and ask why do we replace so many signs and brick work? Why do we have so many make to work projects just to keep people employed?
10:33 PM on 11/30/2011
I guess none on council who voted for cuts to service and fare hikes for the TTC travel regularly during rush hour. We are crammed in like sardines already on the bus, street cars and subways. Standing way too close to too many people with hygiene problems, way too large and hauling huge knapsacks blocking isles and smacking people in the back with them. I mean ridership is drastically up on the TTC and they get cuts and crime is down but the police services, with already bloated budgets, get no cuts only "temporary" freezes that we know will disappear as soon as the budget is passed. Way type of failed city are these people in power have in store for us. Shame.....
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Maxirules
12:20 AM on 12/01/2011
Its one liar (Ford) support another (Bill Blair). Remember how Bill Blair came to Ford's assistance during that 911 call fiasco.

I guess they have never taken No. 23 Dufferin Bus or No. 36 Finch Bus. I have been unfortunate enough to travel on both.

Just Shameful... Where is his promise of "no service cuts", and "respect for taxpayers"... I am frigging tax payer and I can't even get a bus on time?
10:21 PM on 11/30/2011
"A total of 666 unionized workers will get notices".
666, eh. That's a rather ominous number.
10:18 PM on 11/30/2011
As tough as the news is, the public sector just can't keep borrowing. And finally someone is taking on the unions.
10:58 PM on 11/30/2011
Are you enjoying your paid vacations? Guess who got that for you? Unions.
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Maxirules
12:23 AM on 12/01/2011
Or his health care benefits... or 40 hour work week.... or paid sick leave....
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Warpde
Badges? We don't need no stinking Badges.
09:34 PM on 11/30/2011
666 unionized workers?
Oh Rog.
With that number you are sooooo flucked the next election.

P.S. You may want to add or subtract a digit from that number.
Doesn't look good on the resume.
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CanadaStan
Cogito ergo spud, I think, therefore I yam
07:20 PM on 11/30/2011
Now if Harper would cut the $1.1 billion dollar bailout we hand the CBC every year we would be getting somewhere.
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tan2123
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09:31 PM on 11/30/2011
You're intimidated by the CBC, we get it- it's over your head! Stick to your Sun and continue staring at your navel...go away!
10:23 PM on 11/30/2011
Over or heads? Really? What CBC are you watching? If it can't exist in the market place without my tax dollars perhaps it doesn't need to exist at all. Ever heard of the concept freedom of choice? If this were really a free country I would have the option of opting out of being a tax teat for the sacred fat cow CBC to suckle at. Then you and your superior kind would be left holding the bag. Now there's a beautiful thing!
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CanadaStan
Cogito ergo spud, I think, therefore I yam
10:31 PM on 11/30/2011
I'll be happy to quit bitching about the CBC, as soon as I'm not forced to pay for their lies.

If you want to pay for someone to lie to you, why not just get a hooker?
yer
Stop the Alberta Taliban
04:01 AM on 12/12/2011
Much easier to cut the $1.2 billion to the tarsands. Ironically Albertans cry about the NEP but they appear to be the only members. All conservatives are hypocrites.
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06:56 PM on 11/30/2011
Anyone out here bold enough to put money down for Rob Ford winning the next election?
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agness nutter
What fresh hell is this?
07:04 PM on 11/30/2011
Heh.
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CanadaStan
Cogito ergo spud, I think, therefore I yam
07:20 PM on 11/30/2011
Yup, how much?
08:26 PM on 11/30/2011
I wouldn't count him out when you think about the fact that the suburbs vote for the city of Toronto.. I live in Vancouver and am so glad the suburbs don't get a chance to vote in the city of Vancouver.