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March 13, 2009

Local 500 Launches Billboard Ads

Billboard ads promoting public water have gone up in the city this week as part of the Local's "Positively Public" campaign. In November last year, Winnipeg City Council approved a very significant motion that dealt with city utilities and particularly the expansion of our water treatment facilities

"We're posting these ads because we're concerned that City politicians and officials are laying the groundwork to privatize water services in the City of Winnipeg," said Mike Davidson, President of CUPE Local 500. "We want to raise public awareness of the threat of privatization which is all part of the union's campaign to protect and maintain public services.

The four billboards are located at Portage Avenue and Broadway; Main Street at Graham; Kenaston Boulevard at Lowson Crescent and Arlington Street at Logan Avenue.