Digital Archive

Impromptu Sign Service is set up by public health nurses Melinda Paterson (left) and Linda Wilson on road leading to Scarborough Civic Centre as assoc(...)

Order Reproduction

Impromptu Sign Service is set up by public health nurses Melinda Paterson (left) and Linda Wilson on road leading to Scarborough Civic Centre as assoc(...)

Date6/14/1976

Names

Loek, Dick (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

Format

Picture

Notes

Original Toronto Star caption: Impromptu Sign Service is set up by public health nurses Melinda Paterson (left) and Linda Wilson on road leading to Scarborough Civic Centre as associates start a one-week strike yesterday to underline demands for compulsory arbitration of contract disputes. Nurses from 26 public health units across province went out on strike yesterday in similar disputes. Scarborough Alderman Frank Faubert says they don't deserve same salaries as hospital nurses.

Subject

Strikes and lockouts

Medium

Photographs

Language

ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)

Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)

Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0017032F

Discover More

Public Health Nurses from across Ontario demonstrated outside the Ontario Legislature today in a bid to force compulsory arbitration to end their cont(...)

Public Health Nurses from across Ontario demonstrated outside the Ontario Legislature today in a bid to force compulsory arbitration to end their cont(...)

6/16/1976

Registered nurses at glazier medical centre Oshawa

Registered nurses at glazier medical centre Oshawa

1/11/1995

Nurses Picket in Etobicoke

Nurses Picket in Etobicoke

6/14/1976

Nurses on Picket Line

Nurses on Picket Line

6/14/1976

Dumping of garbage, as pictured above, is another vital civic service which the strike will hit

Dumping of garbage, as pictured above, is another vital civic service which the strike will hit

11/2/1966

A member of Local 43, Canadian Union of Public Employees, puts up a strike sign at the Ashbridge's Bay sewage treatment plant today as 2,000 of the ci(...)

A member of Local 43, Canadian Union of Public Employees, puts up a strike sign at the Ashbridge's Bay sewage treatment plant today as 2,000 of the ci(...)

6/5/1972

The president of Local 43, Canadian Union of Public Employees, Russell Doyle, tells striking civic workers outside City Hall union negotiators have ac(...)

The president of Local 43, Canadian Union of Public Employees, Russell Doyle, tells striking civic workers outside City Hall union negotiators have ac(...)

5/8/1972

They're out: Civic workers in York borough, members of two locals of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, walked off the job today in a strike over fringe benefits

They're out: Civic workers in York borough, members of two locals of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, walked off the job today in a strike over fringe benefits

10/14/1981

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

Their cupboards are bare and several hundred striking civic workers line up at tables at the City Hall foyer to collect pay cheques for the six days t(...)

Their cupboards are bare and several hundred striking civic workers line up at tables at the City Hall foyer to collect pay cheques for the six days t(...)

4/20/1972

Nap Time: Francisco Beltran, 4, drops off to sleep yesterday as his mother Rosa, lines up for service at a Canada Employment Centre office on Dufferin St

Nap Time: Francisco Beltran, 4, drops off to sleep yesterday as his mother Rosa, lines up for service at a Canada Employment Centre office on Dufferin St

9/9/1991

City hall negotiators leave the room in the Royal York in which they are meeting on Metro's 20-day-old strike of civic workers. From the left are Alde(...)

City hall negotiators leave the room in the Royal York in which they are meeting on Metro's 20-day-old strike of civic workers. From the left are Alde(...)

4/28/1972