UPDATED - Sept. 14 at 2:23 p.m.
Members of the United Steelworkers union will visit striking OPSEU Local 677 members on their picket line at the entrance to Laurentian University Sept. 14, starting at 7 a.m.
The Steelworkers will cook a breakfast for the strikers, and then walk the picket lines with them.
Local 677 represents clerical, administrative and technical workers at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM). They have been on strike since Aug. 16.
The parties have agreed to return to the table Sept. 14-17 in Thunder Bay with the assistance of a Ministry of Labour mediator. Mediated talks earlier this month ended without an agreement.
Steelworkers Local 6500 members settled a strike against Vale earlier this summer, after being on strike for nearly a year.
Local 677 is also planning a rally and march in downtown Sudbury between 10:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Sept. 15.
They will march through the downtown core, making stops at Sudbury MPP Rick Bartolucci's office, Tom Davies Square and the Ministry of Health and Long-Term care office.
