The pay increase comes after the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 79 requested earlier this year that the city review its aquatics staff wages.

City child care, community centres and garbage collection east of Yonge Street are among the services that will be shut down if 28,000 unionized workers go on strike or are locked out next week.

With a possible strike or lockout a week away, two unions representing 28,000 municipal workers say they've made a joint cost-saving proposal to city negotiators but that contract talks remain at an impasse.