Do you not find it disconcerting that the sole achievement you can list is a routine operational matter?  Every single mayor since amalgamation made it through the first term without a garbage strike.  

No, contracted workers do not collect outside their district in the event that in-house collectors go on strike. A good chunk of the area west of Yonge (former Etobicoke) was already contracted before Ford and at the time of the last strike  - and in fact he botched renewal of that one, which is why they don't expand contracting further.  Contracting a second district didn't add anything that didn't already exist. 

So, even his sole achievement is not particularly impressive.