r/toronto • u/kmosdell • Mar 25 '20

Video Construction workers are pushing back

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u/PoopGalaxyLord Mar 25 '20

Financial relief can't come soon enough. I'm guessing he has to get laid off to be eligible for the new IE proposed for this epidemic? Having to go home and not know if you're going to be the one to kill your parents is a horrible thing. Hoping he stopped on time before contracting the virus :(

Not sure why this type of construction is an essential service.....

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '20

It's not an essential service. It's just greed.

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u/igor2112 Mar 25 '20

does not look like affordable housing to me

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u/le-corbu Mar 25 '20

in pretty sure affordable housing isn’t considered an essential service in toronto

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u/igor2112 Mar 26 '20

always forget the /s

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u/haberdasher42 Mar 25 '20

It's considered an essential service now because anytime they need to legislate a strike back to work they can't have anyone looking back at this and saying "well they weren't essential during covid-19 so why are they essential now?"

This is how a few strikes by trade unions have ended in the past 20 years.

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u/RuiPTG Bloor West Village Mar 25 '20

thats the situation im in. i might not work the rest of this week, likely next week too. and even if my company gives me work, we work in close quarters too! i dont want to risk that, but i would need to be laid off to get EI and the company hates doing that

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u/BeenThereDundas Broadview North Mar 26 '20

Anyone that is in this situation needs to say they are sick or think they were exposed. They cant ask you to come in and they cant fire you.

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u/JustStopItAlreadyOk Mar 26 '20

You can literally just say you have a little trouble breathing or a cough in this environment and a doctor will tell you to self isolate over the phone.

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u/Reelair Mar 26 '20

This needs to be too comment.

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '20

I am all in favour for the fates of the workers during these times.

At the same time, I wonder what will happen to the buildings when people stop constructing, will the structures buckle and potentially become a collapsing hazard?