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Air Canada service workers, who staged a wildcat strike yesterday that disrupted flights by the airline out of Toronto International Airport, are addr(...)
Air Canada service workers, who staged a wildcat strike yesterday that disrupted flights by the airline out of Toronto International Airport, are addr(...)

Air Canada service workers, who staged a wildcat strike yesterday that disrupted flights by the airline out of Toronto International Airport, are addr(...)

Date4/16/1973
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Original Toronto Star caption: Air Canada service workers; who staged a wildcat strike yesterday that disrupted flights by the airline out of Toronto International Airport; are addressed by Dough Walker; business representative of Local 2323 of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union. They were protesting slow pace of contract negotiations.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0016723F
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Historic strike: In 1965, postal workers stunned the nation with a wildcat walkout that eventually won them the right to strike
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Luggage piles up at Toronto International Airport after 100 members of Local 148 of the International Association of machinists and Aerospace Workers (...)
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