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Struggling picket: Union official Leonard Metcalfe struggles with police at the main Hamilton post office yesterday as workers joined rotating strikes
Struggling picket: Union official Leonard Metcalfe struggles with police at the main Hamilton post office yesterday as workers joined rotating strikes

Struggling picket: Union official Leonard Metcalfe struggles with police at the main Hamilton post office yesterday as workers joined rotating strikes

Date10/2/1987
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Backlog of mail that has piled up during the various rotating mail strikes in the Metro area is processed by postal workers at the main office in Toro(...)
Backlog of mail that has piled up during the various rotating mail strikes in the Metro area is processed by postal workers at the main office in Toro(...)
6/29/1970
Ontario Hydro workers, now carrying on a series of rotating strikes, are one group among many public service employees who have walked out this year. (...)
Ontario Hydro workers, now carrying on a series of rotating strikes, are one group among many public service employees who have walked out this year. (...)
7/12/1972
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
Doyle: Firemen, policement and post office workers shouldn't be allowed to strike.
Doyle: Firemen, policement and post office workers shouldn't be allowed to strike.
6/14/1979
Bill Reid directed and took part in a film with parents showing typical family confrontations and power struggles.
Bill Reid directed and took part in a film with parents showing typical family confrontations and power struggles.
3/13/1974
During a walkout by 400 postal workers at the main post office last night, vice-president John Potts of the Toronto Union of Postal Workers appeals fo(...)
During a walkout by 400 postal workers at the main post office last night, vice-president John Potts of the Toronto Union of Postal Workers appeals fo(...)
11/9/1972
In a personal protest against mail the strike, 71-year-old pensioner pickets postal workers outside Toronto Post Office's Terminal One at Bay and Fron(...)
In a personal protest against mail the strike, 71-year-old pensioner pickets postal workers outside Toronto Post Office's Terminal One at Bay and Fron(...)
11/19/1975
Tough times: Employeers suffering the effects of recession and rising labor costs aren't going to solve thier problems by trying to take advantage of workers, says Laborers International union official John Stefanini
Tough times: Employeers suffering the effects of recession and rising labor costs aren't going to solve thier problems by trying to take advantage of workers, says Laborers International union official John Stefanini
9/30/1983
Ken Rose, chief of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) in Canada, has purged his leading Ontario critic from elected union office
Ken Rose, chief of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) in Canada, has purged his leading Ontario critic from elected union office
6/11/1986
UAW strikes UAW, Workers at a dental clinic set up by Local 222 of the United Auto Workers in Oshawa threw up a picket line around the clinic yesterda(...)
UAW strikes UAW, Workers at a dental clinic set up by Local 222 of the United Auto Workers in Oshawa threw up a picket line around the clinic yesterda(...)
9/27/1979
Retired auto workers speak out, Buzz Hargreaves, CAW Union president shakes hands with one of 500 retired union members who staged a protest yesterday at the union's national bargaining convention at the Sheraton Centre
Retired auto workers speak out, Buzz Hargreaves, CAW Union president shakes hands with one of 500 retired union members who staged a protest yesterday at the union's national bargaining convention at the Sheraton Centre
5/4/1993
I am an optimistic person by nature, said O'Keffe, who joined Local 94 president Nelson Miller at the head of the union negotiating The brakdown came despite earlier hopes by both sides that last night's negotitions would bring an end to the strike
I am an optimistic person by nature, said O'Keffe, who joined Local 94 president Nelson Miller at the head of the union negotiating The brakdown came despite earlier hopes by both sides that last night's negotitions would bring an end to the strike
3/9/1987