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FACTS ABOUT THE STRIKE AT STERLING DRUG It is eight years since Sterling Drug Ltd Aurora with a which was founded nearly half a ago Aurora has good for Sterl ing Sterling has been good for Aurora Our coming here created substantial employment added payrolls and local purchasing power and contributed to the communitys development For the past en weeks he Union at Sterling Drug has been a The strike has cost our The effects of he strike an You the public have facts Here they are J loyecs dearly The strike has hurt local business being felt by many others a slake in the strike You have a right to the FACT NO 1 The strike miscalled after Sterling and the Union had reached an agreement on a new contract Almost four months of negotia tions belli ecu he Union find in preceded a settlement which was made with the aid of Government Conciliator On July 5th the settlement was recorded in a signed Memorandum of Agree ment which the Union Committee he International of the Union and the Conciliation Officer appointed by the Ontario Minister of Labour recommended for acceptance by the Union membership The membership failed to accept it FACT NO 2 riles employee benefits before the strike Mirth showed that Sterling Drugs average hourly rate higher than that of six major companies in Aurora and FACT NO 3 The settlement with the for a period This included in higher hourly a big 19 increase The other two cased sick leave pay increased wages for all employees cents per hour represented weekly indemnity benefits reductions in the rate of employee contributions to Sterlings employee welfare plans with greater benefits increased allowance for absence duo to illness or injury improvements in the rates lo be paid employees transferred temporarily or permanently to higher rated jobs FACT NO Even before the contract settlement was reached the hourly gen of our employees were higher thin the average of the other in the Metropolitan our employees favour would today he minify higher if the membership had accepted the settle- STERLING DRUG LTD