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First strike
First strike

First strike

Date8/25/1986
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Original Toronto Star caption: First strike: Social and clerical workers struck London and Middlesex Family and Children's Services yesterday. for the first time in its 93-year history. Strikers say problems at the agency include its inability to keep staff due low pay rates and recent assaults at one of its group homes.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0017086F
The strike is the first labor trouble at the General Motors plant since a strike of several weeks' duration in 1937 during the union's organizing peri(...)
The strike is the first labor trouble at the General Motors plant since a strike of several weeks' duration in 1937 during the union's organizing peri(...)
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First strike
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launched a strike at midnight. Joanne Leader, right, joined one of the first pickets at the South Central sorting plant on Eastern Ave., while 24,000 (...)
launched a strike at midnight. Joanne Leader, right, joined one of the first pickets at the South Central sorting plant on Eastern Ave., while 24,000 (...)
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5/31/1976
Catholic children's aid, where this three-month strike last summer bred much bitterness, was the first group to test the Ontario labor minstry's progr(...)
Catholic children's aid, where this three-month strike last summer bred much bitterness, was the first group to test the Ontario labor minstry's progr(...)
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