{"id":101969,"date":"2017-05-11T02:21:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T06:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=101969"},"modified":"2017-05-11T02:21:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T06:21:16","slug":"staff-at-canadas-largest-zoo-walk-off-the-job-in-contract-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/11\/staff-at-canadas-largest-zoo-walk-off-the-job-in-contract-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff at Canada&#8217;s largest zoo walk off the job in contract dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_101970\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101970\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/800px-TorontoZoo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101970\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/800px-TorontoZoo.jpg\" alt=\"The Sarangani Energy Corp. (SEC), a subsidiary of Alsons Consolidated Resources, Inc. (ACR), has secured a PHP10.5-billion syndicated loan that will help finance the construction of the second 105-megawatt (MW) section of SEC\u2019s 210-MW coal-fired baseload power plant in Maasim, Sarangani province. (Photo By Maelwys at English Wikipedia (Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.) [Public domain])\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/800px-TorontoZoo.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/800px-TorontoZoo-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/800px-TorontoZoo-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-101970\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Sarangani Energy Corp. (SEC), a subsidiary of Alsons Consolidated Resources, Inc. (ACR), has secured a PHP10.5-billion syndicated loan that will help finance the construction of the second 105-megawatt (MW) section of SEC\u2019s 210-MW coal-fired baseload power plant in Maasim, Sarangani province. (Photo by<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3ATorontoZoo.jpg\"> Maelwys at English Wikipedia (Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons.) [Public domain]<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>TORONTO \u2014 More than 400 employees at the Toronto Zoo have walked off the job to back their contract demands.<\/p>\n<p>CUPE Local 1600 says the walkout began at midnight Wednesday at Canada&#8217;s largest zoo after the two sides failed to come to terms on the key issue of job security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are incredibly disappointed to have to take strike action, but the Toronto Zoo&#8217;s refusal to move on job security left us with no alternative,\u201d said local president Christine McKenzie in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The union said picket lines would go up at the zoo&#8217;s entrances in east end Toronto and that workers were being asked to show up at their regular shift times, but to report for picket duty.<\/p>\n<p>It was unclear whether the zoo would be open for business on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>McKenzie said the union&#8217;s bargaining committee remains ready to quickly resume negotiations and urged zoo management to provide their negotiating team with the \u201cflexibility they need to conclude bargaining.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have numerous animals on the verge of giving birth, a new health centre supposed to open, and thousands of animals that won&#8217;t be getting the level of care they should be getting,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, that ball is in the employer&#8217;s court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 400 workers include zookeepers, maintenance, administration, ride operators, public relations staff, concession and ride operators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014 More than 400 employees at the Toronto Zoo have walked off the job to back their contract demands. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":101970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}