Negotiations for a new Toronto Police Association contract have broken down, sending the city’s police board and the union representing rank-and-file officers to arbitration — and a probable “public relations war.”
Announced in a union statement this week that heaped blame on both the mayor and the bargaining committee, the development comes after eight months of negotiation to renew a contract that expired last December — a 2019 agreement that saw officers offered a bigger raise than other city workers.