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Extra protection: Labor minister Robert Elgie has made proposals to help workers being laid off, like these ones leaving Massey-Ferguson last spring for a long, jobless summer
Extra protection: Labor minister Robert Elgie has made proposals to help workers being laid off, like these ones leaving Massey-Ferguson last spring for a long, jobless summer

Extra protection: Labor minister Robert Elgie has made proposals to help workers being laid off, like these ones leaving Massey-Ferguson last spring for a long, jobless summer

Date5/30/1980
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Original Toronto Star caption: Extra protection: Labor minister Robert Elgie has made proposals to help workers being laid off; like these ones leaving Massey-Ferguson last spring for a long; jobless summer.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Object NumberTSPA_0018414F
Left behind: At Metro Labor Council job search program, counsellor Vince Greason helps laid-off workers YukHa Lee, left, and Darshan Singh
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Bock, Tony
12/16/1988
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Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
2/5/1993
Workmen busy on construction of shacks in one of the camps along North Bay-Mattawa section of trans-Canada highway, to where some of Toronto jobless have gone
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Toronto Star (Firm)
10/2/1931
The Jobless line up for Unemployment Insurance cheques today in Moss Park Armory, one of two places where the cheques are being distributed while mail(...)
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Barkley, Harold
4/22/1974
Mail dispute forces jobless to line up for own cheques
Mail dispute forces jobless to line up for own cheques
Ross, Fred
5/27/1970
Camps for Trans-Canada highway workers, Trans-Canada highway camps to house workers on the North Bay-Pembroke section of the Ontario route, are nearing completion
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Toronto Star (Firm)
9/26/1931
Facing the axe: A de Havilland worker, leaving the Downsview plant yesterday with fellow employees, reacts with a thumbs-down to news of 1,300 layoffs
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Dunlop, Al
10/4/1991
Bad news: Martin Cosby (left), an assembler at de Havilland Aircraft is one of 400 workers to get layoff notices last week
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Faught, Ken
10/2/1992
Bad news: Saddened General Tire workers in Barrie reflect during their work break on the announcement of the closing down of their plant next month, a move which will throw almost 900 out of work
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Faught, Ken
9/4/1991
Workers pour out of General Motors Frigidaire plant at end of shift yesterday after being told the company is getting out of the household appliance i(...)
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Canadian General Electric Company
10 September 1970
Sorry - no jobs here: With high technology destroying jobs instead of creting them, workers face problems
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Darrell, Dick
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