1/7 In modern history, unions have been the only effective voice working people have ever had. Workers have fought long and hard, sacrificing personal freedoms, in order to provide fundamental rights and conditions for workers right across this country.

2/7 Firefighters are not strangers to the ideals of sacrifice for others. We willingly undergo harsh conditions and hardships to help our fellow citizens. And it is crucial for us to stand up for others in any circumstance.

3/7 Toronto’s Professional Firefighters believe strongly in the due processes that have been fought for and won by generations before ours.The right to freely negotiate, and to undertake arbitration to achieve fair and equitable decisions is unalienable,and SHOULD be unassailable

4/7 That is why we stand shoulder2shoulder with all of our union sisters and brothers and condemn Bill 28 in its attempt to circumvent the processes that have long been in place. Our job is to protect those that cannot protect themselves, and to work together for the greater good

5/7 Martin Luther King once said, ‘History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labour movement did not diminish the strength of the nation, but enlarged it.

6/7 By raising the living standards of millions, labour labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed of levels of production. Those who attack labour forget these simple truths, but history remembers them”

7/7 Respect for the process of unions is an unassailable and hard fought right that is crucial to the overall progress of our society. Local 3888 will not stand by and watch that process be disregarded