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Striking civic workers parade past The Archer in Nathan Phillips Square in picketing City hall today, the 17th day of their strike. The 200 pickets in(...)
Striking civic workers parade past The Archer in Nathan Phillips Square in picketing City hall today, the 17th day of their strike. The 200 pickets in(...)

Striking civic workers parade past The Archer in Nathan Phillips Square in picketing City hall today, the 17th day of their strike. The 200 pickets in(...)

Date4/26/1972
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Original Toronto Star caption: Striking civic workers parade past The Archer in Nathan Phillips Square in picketing City hall today; the 17th day of their strike. The 200 pickets included members of fellow unions as well as Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 43. The chief negotiator for the union says a settlement may come within a week.
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Object NumberTSPA_0016897F
Police outnumber metro outside workers' pickets by better than two to one on chilly and nearly deserted Nathan Phillips square today, All days off for(...)
Police outnumber metro outside workers' pickets by better than two to one on chilly and nearly deserted Nathan Phillips square today, All days off for(...)
11/5/1966
Peaceful confrontation: police and metro strikers maintain an orderly vigil in Nathan Phillips Square, The new City Hall is at far left, Police are lined up between it and the marching pickets
Peaceful confrontation: police and metro strikers maintain an orderly vigil in Nathan Phillips Square, The new City Hall is at far left, Police are lined up between it and the marching pickets
11/3/1966
One woman braves the pickets, A lone City Hall employee strides across windswept Nathan Phillips Square, prepared to pass through the massed ranks of (...)
One woman braves the pickets, A lone City Hall employee strides across windswept Nathan Phillips Square, prepared to pass through the massed ranks of (...)
11/4/1966
Snowman on picket duty, Students picketing Jarvis Collegiate in support of their striking teachers have built a snowman picket in front of the school,(...)
Snowman on picket duty, Students picketing Jarvis Collegiate in support of their striking teachers have built a snowman picket in front of the school,(...)
12/3/1975
Picketing supermarket, Sister Mary Donovan, of Cenacle Retreat House, walks with other pickets outside Power Super Markets Ltd. store on Eglinton Ave.(...)
Picketing supermarket, Sister Mary Donovan, of Cenacle Retreat House, walks with other pickets outside Power Super Markets Ltd. store on Eglinton Ave.(...)
9/6/1968
Picketing the teacher pickets, Shirley Breen carries her placard yesterday outside Georges Vanier Secondary School
Picketing the teacher pickets, Shirley Breen carries her placard yesterday outside Georges Vanier Secondary School
11/12/1975
Picketing the pickets
Picketing the pickets
7/2/1981
Deploying their forces from a canvas-covered headquarters, picket captains of the striking postal unions arrange for round-the-clock picketing of Toro(...)
Deploying their forces from a canvas-covered headquarters, picket captains of the striking postal unions arrange for round-the-clock picketing of Toro(...)
7/18/1968
Chelmsford Students jeer as Cars Cross Picket Line at Struck School, School board has now applied for a ban on all picketing, as 200 join 14 strikers near Sudbury
Chelmsford Students jeer as Cars Cross Picket Line at Struck School, School board has now applied for a ban on all picketing, as 200 join 14 strikers near Sudbury
3/19/1966
One of about 450 striking hydro and water workers in Scarborough cools off her feet while picketing the utilities headquarters. The strikers, who have(...)
One of about 450 striking hydro and water workers in Scarborough cools off her feet while picketing the utilities headquarters. The strikers, who have(...)
7/24/1989
Strikers demonstrate: About 100 of the 400 central library workers who have been on strike for six weeks demonstrate in Nathan Phillips Square yesterday before a Metro council meeting
Strikers demonstrate: About 100 of the 400 central library workers who have been on strike for six weeks demonstrate in Nathan Phillips Square yesterday before a Metro council meeting
6 November 1984
Some of 400 Metro library workers who are picketing to support their strike hold a costume party of sorts on the picket line at the central library
Some of 400 Metro library workers who are picketing to support their strike hold a costume party of sorts on the picket line at the central library
11 October 1984