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Postal vote tally in Toronto today added up to a resounding 'no' to back to work order
Postal vote tally in Toronto today added up to a resounding 'no' to back to work order

Postal vote tally in Toronto today added up to a resounding 'no' to back to work order

Date7/28/1965
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Original Toronto Star caption: Postal vote tally in Toronto today added up to a resounding 'no' to back to work order. postmen and mail sorters voted 1;475 to 933 to stay on strike. Montreal and Quebec voted to stay out too. [Incomplete]
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0017168F
Postal Workers Vote On Strike, The decisive ballots in the vote on whether there will be a nation-wide postal strike are being cast today and tomorrow(...)
Postal Workers Vote On Strike, The decisive ballots in the vote on whether there will be a nation-wide postal strike are being cast today and tomorrow(...)
10/15/1975
Votes counted at Royal York hotel to decide if inside postal workers would strike, The ballot count was 906 in favor of a strike and 286 opposed. Metro mail is tied up completely
Votes counted at Royal York hotel to decide if inside postal workers would strike, The ballot count was 906 in favor of a strike and 286 opposed. Metro mail is tied up completely
7/26/1965
Mail walkout begins as pickets today took up positions around Postal Terminal A in Toronto, and 34 other postal buildings in the city. Sam Chuck (righ(...)
Mail walkout begins as pickets today took up positions around Postal Terminal A in Toronto, and 34 other postal buildings in the city. Sam Chuck (righ(...)
7/18/1968
Striking postal workers form tight lines yesterday around Terminal A in case of a back-to-work movement developed
Striking postal workers form tight lines yesterday around Terminal A in case of a back-to-work movement developed
11/9/1975
Back sorting the mail, Jean Hill works with other postal employees who crossed the picket line at Don Mills post office
Back sorting the mail, Jean Hill works with other postal employees who crossed the picket line at Don Mills post office
11/14/1975
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
Sharing shelter from the rain, striking postal workers Bob Johnson (left) and Art Langley picket the main postal building today while officials were b(...)
Sharing shelter from the rain, striking postal workers Bob Johnson (left) and Art Langley picket the main postal building today while officials were b(...)
1/19/1973
Shouting and waving defiantly, postal mechanics demonstrate today in front of Canada's largest postal sorting station, the Gateway plant in Mississaug(...)
Shouting and waving defiantly, postal mechanics demonstrate today in front of Canada's largest postal sorting station, the Gateway plant in Mississaug(...)
8/23/1988
Metro's outside workers vote on settlement reached during weekend talks, Members of CUPE cast ballots at Queen Elizabeth Building today, will know results after Toronto workers vote
Metro's outside workers vote on settlement reached during weekend talks, Members of CUPE cast ballots at Queen Elizabeth Building today, will know results after Toronto workers vote
11/7/1966
Checking off the names of postal workers manning the picket line outside the main post office building in Toronto today, union shop steward Clark Robi(...)
Checking off the names of postal workers manning the picket line outside the main post office building in Toronto today, union shop steward Clark Robi(...)
6/9/1970
University & King protest back-to-work order
University & King protest back-to-work order
12/3/1997
Moving a mountain of mail started today as Toronto's 1,400 postmen and 2,200 sorters came back to work after a six-day walkout. Toronto Post Office is(...)
Moving a mountain of mail started today as Toronto's 1,400 postmen and 2,200 sorters came back to work after a six-day walkout. Toronto Post Office is(...)
7/30/1965