Solidarity picket Friday December 18th @ 6 am

As the strike by workers at Infinity Rubber enters its second week, solidarity has been building on the picket line. The workers – members of United Steelworkers Local 526 – face a union-busting effort by a greedy employer. If workers say no to concessions, if the union files a grievance, it seems the answer to everything by Infinity Rubber management is "if you don't like it we'll shut the plant down". Enough is enough. If the boss is a Grinch, we here in Whoville need to pull together and support these strikers.

Join the solidarity picket on Friday December 18th, from 6 am to 8 am at 170 North Queen Street, Toronto. From the QEW: take exit 139, Sherway Gardens - head north, take the first left onto The Queensway, then the first right up North Queen Street.

By bus: take the 123A or 123C from Kipling Station, stop just past the Walmart on North Queen Street.

Infinity Rubber: Infinitely Greedy!

Infinity Rubber Technology Group Inc. puts the boot to their workers at Christmas time!

Despite accepting a 10% pay cut last year, a group of manufacturing workers is now on strike after their employer demanded even greater concessions to their modest wages and benefits.
Unionized employees at Infinity Rubber Technology Group Inc. in Toronto decided to strike in response to the company's demands for a 25% pay cut and for the workers to start paying for group insurance benefits.
The company also is demanding other concessions from the workers, who are members of Local 526L of the United Steelworkers (USW).
"These are workers who were earning $20 an hour and they reluctantly agreed to take a $2 hourly wage cut in November 2008," said Bryan Adamczyk, a USW staff representative.
"Now the company is demanding they take a $5-per-hour wage cut and pay 50% of the cost of benefits. With these demands the workers would be earning $13.65 per hour after factoring in cost of benefits for employees."
Most of the workers who were still on the job prior to the strike have more than 20 years of service with Infinity Rubber, formerly known as Biltrite Rubber Inc.
The company had employed more than 100 unionized workers, but the layoff of more than 60 employees left 44 workers prior to the strike.