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'Business as usual' vow makes sense only if union makes big concessions or federal government passes a law ordering strikers back to work
'Business as usual' vow makes sense only if union makes big concessions or federal government passes a law ordering strikers back to work

'Business as usual' vow makes sense only if union makes big concessions or federal government passes a law ordering strikers back to work

Date9/22/1978
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Original Toronto Star caption: 'Business as usual' vow makes sense only if union makes big concessions or federal government passes a law ordering strikers back to work
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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_0017244F
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Union station still has Tomb-like stillness about it as most strikers stay on the streets
Union station still has Tomb-like stillness about it as most strikers stay on the streets
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Defiant TTC strikers leave a union meeting yesterday in a Scarborough curling rink at which they voted to hold a secret ballot tomorrow on whether to (...)
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Non-Strikers, right, argue with striking Cabbie, left, and union official (in beard
Non-Strikers, right, argue with striking Cabbie, left, and union official (in beard
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Strikers march on city hall, Striking Royal York hotel employees parade from city hall to Union Station to protest the hotel's exemption from city bus(...)
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Metro strikers parading outside city hall today, If people want to walk through our picket line that's their business
Metro strikers parading outside city hall today, If people want to walk through our picket line that's their business
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