Support growing for striking TD-Canada Trust employees

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/July2007/09/c4883.html

Attention News/Labour Editors:
Support growing for striking TD-Canada Trust employees

SUDBURY, ON, July 9 /CNW/ - United Steelworkers' (USW) Ontario/Atlantic
Director Wayne Fraser said Monday that support is growing for the more than
100 members of USW Local 2020 on strike at several TD-Canada Trust branches.
"Our members at TD in Sudbury are a workforce of mostly women who work as
customer service representatives and have given the bank years of dedicated
service," said Fraser. "Now they are in the position of having to fight for
decent wages and working conditions. Their courage is important to all workers
in the financial services sector."
Fraser said many people have come forward and cut up their TD-issued
credit cards and local unions have been asked to move their financial business
to other institutions if the strike, which began June 18, is not settled very
soon.
Striking workers are also planning to take their story to other
communities that have TD-Canada Trust branches. The first of these is tomorrow
(Tuesday, July 10) in North Bay, where they will be joined at the bank branch
on Main Street by workers from a nearby crisis centre. A later trip is planned
for Parry Sound.
"We will be making our case loud and clear across the province," Fraser
said, "even if it means bringing it to Bay Street."

The USW is Canada's most diverse union, representing more than 280,000
men and women working in every sector of the economy, including more than
1,000 bank and financial services workers.