John Toto, who played a major role in building the Sewage Treatment Workers local of District Council 37 and later led its national union's successful campaign to organize 35,000 public employees in Ohio, died Oct. 7 at 91.
Al Viani, whose tenure as a top DC 37 staffer overlapped with Mr. Toto's, and like him also served as a local president, in an Oct. 12 phone interview recalled him as "a very jovial guy; he had a great sense of humor. And he really believed in the labor movement. He was just a very decent, down-to-earth guy who tried to improve working conditions."
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