City Council’s vote to retain unionized office cleaners making $22 an hour helps set the stage for a final showdown over how your money is spent. It will happen at the 2014 municipal election. Council voted 12 to 29 yesterday to reject Mayor’s Ford’s proposal to contract out office cleaning. There are, apparently, millions of dollars at issue. A short-term contract with private cleaners has shown that the police service saved 47% over the previous cost of cleaning one station. The linked story describes the extensive planning by those in favour of union agreements to defeat the economizers. Remarkably, the meeting features one councillor, Aana Bailoa, weeping with nostalgia about her days as an immigrant cleaner at City Hall. Evidently it swayed many councillors.