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Setting up picket lines in Metro's first teacher strike, teachers at Northern Secondary School get their placards today when 8,800 teachers struck 135(...)
Setting up picket lines in Metro's first teacher strike, teachers at Northern Secondary School get their placards today when 8,800 teachers struck 135(...)

Setting up picket lines in Metro's first teacher strike, teachers at Northern Secondary School get their placards today when 8,800 teachers struck 135(...)

Date11/12/1975
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Original Toronto Star caption: Setting up picket lines in Metro's first teacher strike; teachers at Northern Secondary School get their placards today when 8;800 teachers struck 135 schools; leaving 140;000 high school students sitting in half-empty classrooms or wandering the streets. Well in excess of 90 per cent of the teachers have applied for strike pay; indicating that very few plan to cross picket line; a negotiator says.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0016798F
Calling on Education Minister Thomas Wells to end the strike by Metro's 8,800 secondary school teachers, 100 Etobicoke high school students mass at Qu(...)
Calling on Education Minister Thomas Wells to end the strike by Metro's 8,800 secondary school teachers, 100 Etobicoke high school students mass at Qu(...)
11/20/1975
Still on strike mentally, as one teacher says, some of the 8,800 striking teachers legislated back to work form protest lines outside Jarvis Collegiat(...)
Still on strike mentally, as one teacher says, some of the 8,800 striking teachers legislated back to work form protest lines outside Jarvis Collegiat(...)
1/19/1976
Declaring they are the forgotten victims of the 37-day-old strike by Metro secondary-school teachers, 28 students picket outside York Memorial Collegi(...)
Declaring they are the forgotten victims of the 37-day-old strike by Metro secondary-school teachers, 28 students picket outside York Memorial Collegi(...)
12/17/1975
Picketing alongside striking teachers, students at L'Amoureaux Collegiate in Scarborough march with their own placards yesterday, calling for an end t(...)
Picketing alongside striking teachers, students at L'Amoureaux Collegiate in Scarborough march with their own placards yesterday, calling for an end t(...)
11/17/1975
Students protest at Queen's Park in November, 1975 to persuade Ontario to end the Metro secondary school teachers' strike that ended classes for 140,0(...)
Students protest at Queen's Park in November, 1975 to persuade Ontario to end the Metro secondary school teachers' strike that ended classes for 140,0(...)
11/18/1975
On the inside looking out at Eastern High, Teachers picket on first day of their strike across Metro
On the inside looking out at Eastern High, Teachers picket on first day of their strike across Metro
11/12/1975
Before crossing a picket line of striking students at Eastern High School of Commerce give the teachers coffee today
Before crossing a picket line of striking students at Eastern High School of Commerce give the teachers coffee today
11/12/1975
High School Students Study At Synagogue, Taking advantage of secondary school teachers' strike Adath Israel Synagogue in the Bathurst St. Wilson Ave. (...)
High School Students Study At Synagogue, Taking advantage of secondary school teachers' strike Adath Israel Synagogue in the Bathurst St. Wilson Ave. (...)
11/18/1975
On the 42nd day of a strike by secondary school teachers in York Region, York Trustees Jack Mackay (left) and Warren Bailie (centre) talk with William(...)
On the 42nd day of a strike by secondary school teachers in York Region, York Trustees Jack Mackay (left) and Warren Bailie (centre) talk with William(...)
3/13/1974
Hoping for settlement of the secondary-school teachers' strike this week, three mediators have been working almost around the clock at the Royal York (...)
Hoping for settlement of the secondary-school teachers' strike this week, three mediators have been working almost around the clock at the Royal York (...)
12/8/1975
Opposing the nine-week-old strike of secondary school teachers, students march and chant at Queen's Park yesterday
Opposing the nine-week-old strike of secondary school teachers, students march and chant at Queen's Park yesterday
1/15/1976
Forty-Eight hours before they are due to vote on whether to accept the school boards' offer, striking secondary school teachers showed up today on pic(...)
Forty-Eight hours before they are due to vote on whether to accept the school boards' offer, striking secondary school teachers showed up today on pic(...)
1/5/1976