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While garbage is piling up in homes, streets, parks and schoolyards, Metro outside workers are continuing their strike
While garbage is piling up in homes, streets, parks and schoolyards, Metro outside workers are continuing their strike

While garbage is piling up in homes, streets, parks and schoolyards, Metro outside workers are continuing their strike

Date4/22/1972
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Original Toronto Star caption: While garbage is piling up in homes; streets; parks and schoolyards; Metro outside workers are continuing their strike. Letters below berate both strikers and municipal officials over this situation.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0016886F
Down in the dumps?, No, this is down in York where garbage has been piling up for more than two weeks because of the municipal workers strike. Two med(...)
Down in the dumps?, No, this is down in York where garbage has been piling up for more than two weeks because of the municipal workers strike. Two med(...)
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A Common Sight in the days ahead if the Metro outside workers' strike continues will be pile-ups of garbage like this one on Pembroke St. today. In th(...)
A Common Sight in the days ahead if the Metro outside workers' strike continues will be pile-ups of garbage like this one on Pembroke St. today. In th(...)
11/3/1966
First Strike by north york municpal employees, which began yesterday, is resulting in garbage piling up at the rate of 700 tons a day in backyards and(...)
First Strike by north york municpal employees, which began yesterday, is resulting in garbage piling up at the rate of 700 tons a day in backyards and(...)
5/31/1976
Trash mounts up: York borough resident Frank Marchese huris his garbage onto the huge mound at Keeledale Park, designated a dump site during the strike by municipal workers
Trash mounts up: York borough resident Frank Marchese huris his garbage onto the huge mound at Keeledale Park, designated a dump site during the strike by municipal workers
10/26/1981
Union leader's lawn piles up with garbage, too, in 18th day of strike by 4,000 civic workers
Union leader's lawn piles up with garbage, too, in 18th day of strike by 4,000 civic workers
4/27/1972
Garbage strike of 1972 ? such a strike means filthy parks and endangered health, reader says in letter below
Garbage strike of 1972 ? such a strike means filthy parks and endangered health, reader says in letter below
4/22/1972
North York workers resumed their cleanup of garbage depots today after the city's 1,300 civic employees ended their 19-day strike on Friday. This pile(...)
North York workers resumed their cleanup of garbage depots today after the city's 1,300 civic employees ended their 19-day strike on Friday. This pile(...)
3/30/1987
2,000,000 a day for mail mountain, As Toronto's first postal strike in 41 years enters its second day, undelivered mail is piling up at post offices a(...)
2,000,000 a day for mail mountain, As Toronto's first postal strike in 41 years enters its second day, undelivered mail is piling up at post offices a(...)
7/24/1965
Votes counted at Royal York hotel to decide if inside postal workers would strike, The ballot count was 906 in favor of a strike and 286 opposed. Metro mail is tied up completely
Votes counted at Royal York hotel to decide if inside postal workers would strike, The ballot count was 906 in favor of a strike and 286 opposed. Metro mail is tied up completely
7/26/1965
In a personal protest against mail the strike, 71-year-old pensioner pickets postal workers outside Toronto Post Office's Terminal One at Bay and Fron(...)
In a personal protest against mail the strike, 71-year-old pensioner pickets postal workers outside Toronto Post Office's Terminal One at Bay and Fron(...)
11/19/1975
Metro's outside workers vote on settlement reached during weekend talks, Members of CUPE cast ballots at Queen Elizabeth Building today, will know results after Toronto workers vote
Metro's outside workers vote on settlement reached during weekend talks, Members of CUPE cast ballots at Queen Elizabeth Building today, will know results after Toronto workers vote
11/7/1966
UAW strikes UAW, Workers at a dental clinic set up by Local 222 of the United Auto Workers in Oshawa threw up a picket line around the clinic yesterda(...)
UAW strikes UAW, Workers at a dental clinic set up by Local 222 of the United Auto Workers in Oshawa threw up a picket line around the clinic yesterda(...)
9/27/1979