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Assembly-line workers can be told 15 minutes before quitting time to work another two hours, and lose their jobs if they refuse
Assembly-line workers can be told 15 minutes before quitting time to work another two hours, and lose their jobs if they refuse

Assembly-line workers can be told 15 minutes before quitting time to work another two hours, and lose their jobs if they refuse

Date1/12/1973
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Original Toronto Star caption: Assembly-line workers can be told 15 minutes before quitting time to work another two hours; and lose their jobs if they refuse.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0107132F
I just met a man who doesn't have a single complaint. Sik Kan Chung is 91. It took him 15 minutes to walk across the park to Woodgreen Community Centre from his place to meet me. Ten years ago it took him only 10 minutes. Another 10 years, maybe it will take half an hour, he said, laughing so hard his glasses slid down his nose. [Incomplete]
I just met a man who doesn't have a single complaint. Sik Kan Chung is 91. It took him 15 minutes to walk across the park to Woodgreen Community Centre from his place to meet me. Ten years ago it took him only 10 minutes. Another 10 years, maybe it will take half an hour, he said, laughing so hard his glasses slid down his nose. [Incomplete]
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Sixteen-year-old Cindy Nicholas completed fastest Lake Ontario swim in 15 hours and 10 minutes
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Dario and Nora Sanchez, (above) the Argentine couple told to quit their jobs, are fully responsible for their misfortune, says one reader. Let them work until their appeal is heard, says another
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Crowds cheer John Kinsella as he walks ashore after swimming Lake Ontario in record time of 13 hours, 49 minutes
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Darbyson: 500 jobs, By Pat McNenly, Toronto Star, A clothing manufacturer says he may have to drop plans for a Toronto plant that would employ 500 workers because the province won't allow him to operate two shifts.
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Workers at Ford of Canada's Oakville assembly line stand around, waiting for the rhythm of work to flow through their veins again after 29 days away f(...)
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On the job: Former construction worker Vito Giovannetti, right, who now runs his own company, talks with Ed Boone, one of his new employees who was hired under a program set up by the Workers' Compensation Board to find jobs for disabled workers
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Lunch beside the line saves time for GM assembly workers
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