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Torontonians are clear that our water should stay in public hands. New polling from Pollara shows 60% of people in Toronto are concerned that Brad Bradford’s agenda would lead to Toronto Water being privatized.

Bradford wants to turn Toronto Water into a corporation under Doug Ford’s Water and Wastewater Public Corporations Act. A legal analysis found that this would hand control of rates and the corporation’s board to the province, and that if the province chose to sell it off, Toronto would have no power to stop it. His promise of lower bills today would come from cutting the money that keeps our water clean and flowing, leaving Torontonians to pay more later.

The workers who test, treat and protect Toronto’s water every day are standing together with a simple message: keep Toronto Water public.

Read the full release on the poll in the preceding post.

Today, members from CUPE Local 79, Toronto Public Library Workers Union (CUPE Local 4948) @local4948, the Toronto Zoo workers of CUPE Local 1600, and the Toronto Civic Employees’ Union (CUPE Local 416) @cupelocal416 came together to canvass and pull the vote for @oliviachow.

We met at @saratorontodanforth’s campaign office, picked up canvassing materials and signs, and headed out to talk with neighbours about a city where the public services workers deliver every day are protected and properly funded.

Advance polls are open until Sunday, October 11, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and election day is Monday, October 26. Make a plan to vote, and bring a friend, a neighbour or a co-worker with you.

Local 79 is welcoming a new group of stewards who have stepped forward to represent their coworkers and are now going through steward training together. Stewards are often the first person a member turns to when something goes wrong at work, and every new steward means more workplaces where problems get raised early and more members ready to organize when it counts — making our union even stronger!

Local 79 members were out across Toronto at midnight on Oct. 1 putting up lawn signs for the candidates members chose to endorse. It’s one of the clearest examples of what worker power looks like during an election, with the people who keep this city running showing up in their own neighbourhoods to help decide who runs it.

Members built these endorsements from the ground up. It started with the vision they wrote together at the Toronto Workers Summit, continued through a town hall series where members questioned candidates directly, and ended with members voting on who earned their support. Now members are carrying that work through to election day by assembling signs, knocking on doors, and talking with neighbours about what a city built around strong public services could look like.

Torontonians are clear that our water should stay in public hands. New polling from Pollara shows 60% of people in Toronto are concerned that Brad Bradford’s agenda would lead to Toronto Water being privatized.

Bradford wants to turn Toronto Water into a corporation under Doug Ford’s Water and Wastewater Public Corporations Act. A legal analysis found that this would hand control of rates and the corporation’s board to the province, and that if the province chose to sell it off, Toronto would have no power to stop it. His promise of lower bills today would come from cutting the money that keeps our water clean and flowing, leaving Torontonians to pay more later.

The workers who test, treat and protect Toronto’s water every day are standing together with a simple message: keep Toronto Water public.

Read the full release on the poll in the preceding post.

Today, members from CUPE Local 79, Toronto Public Library Workers Union (CUPE Local 4948) @local4948, the Toronto Zoo workers of CUPE Local 1600, and the Toronto Civic Employees’ Union (CUPE Local 416) @cupelocal416 came together to canvass and pull the vote for @oliviachow.

We met at @saratorontodanforth’s campaign office, picked up canvassing materials and signs, and headed out to talk with neighbours about a city where the public services workers deliver every day are protected and properly funded.

Advance polls are open until Sunday, October 11, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., and election day is Monday, October 26. Make a plan to vote, and bring a friend, a neighbour or a co-worker with you.

Local 79 is welcoming a new group of stewards who have stepped forward to represent their coworkers and are now going through steward training together. Stewards are often the first person a member turns to when something goes wrong at work, and every new steward means more workplaces where problems get raised early and more members ready to organize when it counts — making our union even stronger!

CUPE Local 79

Keeping Toronto at its best is what gets us up every morning. The work is worth it. And so are we.

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