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The 750-plus Toronto Star union members will hold a strike vote next Wednesday.
Word is union/management negotiations for a new contract have not been promising.
The Star employees, members of CEP's Local 87-M Southern Ontario Newsmedia Guild, will be holding a strike vote as Toronto Sun editorial employees prepare for contract renewal talks.
The Sun employees, members of the same union, are seeking a second contract.
"We have 765 members at the Toronto Star, according to our December dues report," says Brad Honywill, president of CEP Local 87-M. "This figure goes up and down, so we will probably use the round figure of 800 in describing the size of our membership there."
Honywill says the union and the company have agreed to split the cost of an independent mediator, George Adams, a former judge and head of the Ontario Labour Relations Board, to "try and break the deadlock in the Star talks."
"Adams has met the two sides for one day and will get down to the job in earnest on Monday for a full week of mediation," he told TSF in an e-mail.
"We will be in a legal strike position at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 19."
Honywill says the company "is demanding an unprecedented level of concessions, affecting every aspect of working life at the Star. It is both wide and deep and clearly unacceptable to the union."
Will 2008 be the year for talking - or walking?
Stay tuned.
The 750-plus Toronto Star union members will hold a strike vote next Wednesday.
Word is union/management negotiations for a new contract have not been promising.
The Star employees, members of CEP's Local 87-M Southern Ontario Newsmedia Guild, will be holding a strike vote as Toronto Sun editorial employees prepare for contract renewal talks.
The Sun employees, members of the same union, are seeking a second contract.
"We have 765 members at the Toronto Star, according to our December dues report," says Brad Honywill, president of CEP Local 87-M. "This figure goes up and down, so we will probably use the round figure of 800 in describing the size of our membership there."
Honywill says the union and the company have agreed to split the cost of an independent mediator, George Adams, a former judge and head of the Ontario Labour Relations Board, to "try and break the deadlock in the Star talks."
"Adams has met the two sides for one day and will get down to the job in earnest on Monday for a full week of mediation," he told TSF in an e-mail.
"We will be in a legal strike position at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 19."
Honywill says the company "is demanding an unprecedented level of concessions, affecting every aspect of working life at the Star. It is both wide and deep and clearly unacceptable to the union."
Will 2008 be the year for talking - or walking?
Stay tuned.
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