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Off the Job: Strikers make visible and vocal protests at Metro mail sorting plant in a August
Off the Job: Strikers make visible and vocal protests at Metro mail sorting plant in a August

Off the Job: Strikers make visible and vocal protests at Metro mail sorting plant in a August

Date9/20/1991
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Original Toronto Star caption: Off the Job: Strikers make visible and vocal protests at Metro mail sorting plant in a August.
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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_0017338F
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Metro police drag strikers from path of a 9-car Canadian National freight train trying to deliver supplies to strikebound Pilkington Glass Ltd. plant (...)
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11/7/1945
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Street dancing helps to pass the hours for the picketers and here strikers at the Ford plant swing their partners before the main gate to the music of(...)
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Wildcat Strikers Stan Parker and Bob Seeley relax at the entrance to the giant Polysar plant on the outskirts of Milton yesterday beside a hand-drawn (...)
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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
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Camping out at Queen's Park, strikers from Toronto Western Hospital say they'll stay there until the provincial government helps them get back the job(...)
Camping out at Queen's Park, strikers from Toronto Western Hospital say they'll stay there until the provincial government helps them get back the job(...)
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Grimaces and grunts abounded as police choked off wildcat strikers when they Grappled on at least three occasions yesterday. 29 pickets were arrested (...)
Grimaces and grunts abounded as police choked off wildcat strikers when they Grappled on at least three occasions yesterday. 29 pickets were arrested (...)
8/6/1966
Grimaces and grunts abounded as police choked off wildcat strikers when they grappled on at least three occasions yesterday, 29 pickets were arrested (...)
Grimaces and grunts abounded as police choked off wildcat strikers when they grappled on at least three occasions yesterday, 29 pickets were arrested (...)
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