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Down in the dumps?, No, this is down in York where garbage has been piling up for more than two weeks because of the municipal workers strike. Two med(...)
Down in the dumps?, No, this is down in York where garbage has been piling up for more than two weeks because of the municipal workers strike. Two med(...)

Down in the dumps?, No, this is down in York where garbage has been piling up for more than two weeks because of the municipal workers strike. Two med(...)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Down in the dumps?; No; this is down in York where garbage has been piling up for more than two weeks because of the municipal workers strike. Two mediators have been appointed to iron out difficulties between the borough and 450 members of local 10 and 840 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees. A security guard at this loaded Castlefield Ave. site is directing dumpers to keelesdale [Incomplete]
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Trash mounts up: York borough resident Frank Marchese huris his garbage onto the huge mound at Keeledale Park, designated a dump site during the strike by municipal workers
Trash mounts up: York borough resident Frank Marchese huris his garbage onto the huge mound at Keeledale Park, designated a dump site during the strike by municipal workers
10/26/1981
While garbage is piling up in homes, streets, parks and schoolyards, Metro outside workers are continuing their strike
While garbage is piling up in homes, streets, parks and schoolyards, Metro outside workers are continuing their strike
4/22/1972
First Strike by north york municpal employees, which began yesterday, is resulting in garbage piling up at the rate of 700 tons a day in backyards and(...)
First Strike by north york municpal employees, which began yesterday, is resulting in garbage piling up at the rate of 700 tons a day in backyards and(...)
5/31/1976
Disgusting, isn't it?, A block-long emergency garbage dump set up during the York borough strike has brought complaints from local residents. One fami(...)
Disgusting, isn't it?, A block-long emergency garbage dump set up during the York borough strike has brought complaints from local residents. One fami(...)
11/3/1981
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
Medical staff at Toronto Western Hospital are doing the cleaning because kitchen workers, cleaners and maintenance men have been on strike for a week.(...)
Medical staff at Toronto Western Hospital are doing the cleaning because kitchen workers, cleaners and maintenance men have been on strike for a week.(...)
7/18/1972
No End is Seen in the 5-week-old strike by more than 700 workers at Consumers Glass Co
No End is Seen in the 5-week-old strike by more than 700 workers at Consumers Glass Co
8/24/1977
North York workers resumed their cleanup of garbage depots today after the city's 1,300 civic employees ended their 19-day strike on Friday. This pile(...)
North York workers resumed their cleanup of garbage depots today after the city's 1,300 civic employees ended their 19-day strike on Friday. This pile(...)
3/30/1987
Union leader's lawn piles up with garbage, too, in 18th day of strike by 4,000 civic workers
Union leader's lawn piles up with garbage, too, in 18th day of strike by 4,000 civic workers
4/27/1972
A Common Sight in the days ahead if the Metro outside workers' strike continues will be pile-ups of garbage like this one on Pembroke St. today. In th(...)
A Common Sight in the days ahead if the Metro outside workers' strike continues will be pile-ups of garbage like this one on Pembroke St. today. In th(...)
11/3/1966
Stacking up As the Etobicoke garbage strike talks broke down and there is now no early end in sight, a youngster pedals quickly past garbage already s(...)
Stacking up As the Etobicoke garbage strike talks broke down and there is now no early end in sight, a youngster pedals quickly past garbage already s(...)
7/27/1984
Angrily rejecting an ultimatum by Acme Screw and Gear that it would close its two plants if workers didn't accept a wage freeze, more than 800 employe(...)
Angrily rejecting an ultimatum by Acme Screw and Gear that it would close its two plants if workers didn't accept a wage freeze, more than 800 employe(...)
1/20/1971