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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(...)

Shouting and waving defiantly, postal mechanics demonstrate today in front of Canada's largest postal sorting station, the Gateway plant in Mississaug(...)

Date8/23/1988
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Original Toronto Star caption: Shouting and waving defiantly; postal mechanics demonstrate today in front of Canada's largest postal sorting station; the Gateway plant in Mississauga. Canada Post started suspending them on the eve of a strike deadline.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0017321F
Gateway clash: Police officers surround and drag off a picket after a clash with Canadian Union of Postal Workers members at the Gateway sorting station in Mississauga
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