Photos on CEP Local 87M picket line
on Sunday April 8. The Members are
on strike at The Sing Tao Daily Paper a Toronto
Star newspaper. The workers have been on strike
since April 1st for a first contract as scabs try to
deliver the papers. Production has been cut to half.

IN ADDITION TO THE STRIKE ABOVE - TORONTO STAR CARRIERS MEMBERS
OF CEP LOCAL 87M ARE ON STRIKE TO IMPROVE WAGES & WORKING CONDITIONS

The Toronto Star is trying to fire the 2,200 workers who
deliver the newspapers to Toronto homes every morning

Imagine driving to a shoping centre parking lot at 3:30 each
morning to join four dozen others waiting for a truckload of
newspapers. You insert flyers in the newspapers, bundle
and deliver each paper to the door

You provide the car, plastic bags, even the elastics.
You used to earn $1300 a month in 1990 but now your
employer is paying you $980. That's a 25 % cut in income

Provoked by the income squeeze and worsening conditions,
75% of Toronto Star Carriers voted to unionize.
Most are recent immigrants.

Rather than bargain with them, the Toronto Star is trying
to abolish their union

Photos By Peter Boyle