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Issues
Hoof&Cycle - Active Transport Workers' Guild is
now the Toronto Bike Messenger Association (TOBMA)
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TOBMA monthly
meetings:
Every 2nd or 3rd Wednesday of the month.
From 6:30pm to 8:00pm
25 Cecil
St.
All current and former couriers are welcome
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Labour
Labour
Issues
TOBMA
Messenger Industry Handbook -
1999
Food
As Fuel - The
successful fight to allow bicycle and foot couriers a tax deduction on
the
extra food required for them to perform their jobs.
The
Association of Professional Urban Cyclists' (A.P.U.C.) 1991 submissions
on
licensing - APUC was a
messenger association that spoke for couriers in the early 1990’s Many
of the
same people became part of Hoof and Cycle.
Canada
Post
Act – Universal mail requires minimum courier charges.
Violation of the
Canada Post Act go unpunished and lead to exploitation of the labour
force.
Canada
Post's Confirmation -
They will prosecute courier companies who violate the law.
Workers
Compensation
Board - Ontario's
Bike and foot couriers are automatically covered.
Messenger
Contracts - This is a contract
companies use to attempt to avoid labour laws and ethical behaviour.
Environment
Choking
Us To
Death – 1999 - The TOBMA's (formerly Hoof and Cycle's) report
on the air
pollution crisis
and its health effects on couriers.
The TOBMA (formely Hoof and Cycle) submitted
presentations to help
Canada addresss it
comittment to the Kyoto protocol to reduce green house gas emissions
from
transportation sources.
Transportation Table
Address #1
Transportation
Table Address #2
10-9
day
– Messenger Appreciation Day is October 9th
Toronto's Licensing Reports
and Info
Toronto
City Councillor Steve Ellis' 1997 Comments on
those evil enemies of the people. He lost his seat in the very next
election.
Toronto's
Draft Law from 1991 - This was
never passed but any future law would probably start with this draft.
Toronto's
Bicycle Laws - By-laws and the
Highway Traffic Act and fines
More
on Toronto's Laws
from ARC
The
Toronto City
Cycling Committee's (TCCC) 1992 Report - This
is a report on licensing all cyclists in Toronto and couriers. It
comes out against licensing.
The
TCCC's
1991 Report - Includes the TCCC
recommendations to amend the draft by-law. Recommends delaying
licensing until
more information available.
The
TCCC's
1987 Report - This report is
about registering couriers as well as licensing all cyclists.
The
Lawful
and the Awful (1991) - workshops
on improving cyclists behavior and enforcement issues. No couriers
involved in
the workshops - so guess what they recomend, with no evidence.
Metro
Toronto Police Comments on Licensing Couriers - from
1992
Sunwheel
Couriers
Report - from 1989. A
courier company's recomendations
List of Toronto Courier Companies
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