The Canadian Media Guild is ramping up its campaign to end the strike at three radio stations in the city owned by Maritime Broadcasting.
Unions affiliated with the Saint John District Labour Council will be setting up information picket lines outside the businesses that have not pulled their advertising.
The Media Guild’s Gerry Whalen is hoping this will force the owner, Robert Pace, to bargain seriously because he has 3 of the 7 employees on strike earn only 24 thousand dollars a year and find themselves on the border of poverty. There are 3 others making 30 thousand. Whalen charges they are not being treated with respect.
Whalen says he was told by one car dealer in town he has people working for him who clean cars and get paid more money than that.
Negotiations started last October and the strike has been going on now for 9 weeks.
