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Fight pays off: Former Majestic workers Yasmin Moledina, Jim Spanks, centre, and Robert E
Fight pays off: Former Majestic workers Yasmin Moledina, Jim Spanks, centre, and Robert E

Fight pays off: Former Majestic workers Yasmin Moledina, Jim Spanks, centre, and Robert E

Date1/6/1989
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Fight pays off: Former Majestic workers Yasmin Moledina, Jim Spanks, centre, and Robert E
Fight pays off: Former Majestic workers Yasmin Moledina, Jim Spanks, centre, and Robert E
1/6/1989
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
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
6/5/1983
Dropping a hint: High school student Ray Mrowietz, 18, says we pay enough taxes for parks workers to remove animal waste intead of having to do the nasty job outselves
Dropping a hint: High school student Ray Mrowietz, 18, says we pay enough taxes for parks workers to remove animal waste intead of having to do the nasty job outselves
5/28/1980
Emmauel Bourdos, whose take-home pay as a hospital orderly is about $110 a week, helps the two eldest of his six children with their homework as the family gathers around the table. From the left are Bourdos, Photini, 11, Margaret, 10, Mrs. Bourdos holding Dino, 2, Tina, 5, and Bessie, S. Bourdos is one of 6,000 Metro hospital workers who are preparing to risk the consequences of an illegal strike to get a decent wage comparable to that in similar work.
Emmauel Bourdos, whose take-home pay as a hospital orderly is about $110 a week, helps the two eldest of his six children with their homework as the family gathers around the table. From the left are Bourdos, Photini, 11, Margaret, 10, Mrs. Bourdos holding Dino, 2, Tina, 5, and Bessie, S. Bourdos is one of 6,000 Metro hospital workers who are preparing to risk the consequences of an illegal strike to get a decent wage comparable to that in similar work.
1/3/1974
Union leaders: Bill Love, left, former president of United rubber Workers local at Firestone plant in Whitby, says future is gloomy for older workers who lost jobs
Union leaders: Bill Love, left, former president of United rubber Workers local at Firestone plant in Whitby, says future is gloomy for older workers who lost jobs
11/5/1981
Business as usual: Staff workers at a busy nursing station at York Central Hospital in Richmond Hill work cheerfully through the holiday season, but executive director Jim Hepburn (left) remains troubled by the 316-bed hospital's bleak financial picture
Business as usual: Staff workers at a busy nursing station at York Central Hospital in Richmond Hill work cheerfully through the holiday season, but executive director Jim Hepburn (left) remains troubled by the 316-bed hospital's bleak financial picture
12/23/1985
Mission accomplished: Jim Pon, chairman of the Foundation to Commemorate the Chinese Railroad Workers in Canada, worked long and hard to achieve monument near west entrance to SkyDome
Mission accomplished: Jim Pon, chairman of the Foundation to Commemorate the Chinese Railroad Workers in Canada, worked long and hard to achieve monument near west entrance to SkyDome
9/30/1989
Field hands: Jack Rupke, a Holland Marsh celery farmer and former King Township councillor, will employ seven foreign workers on his 68-acre celery farm this season
Field hands: Jack Rupke, a Holland Marsh celery farmer and former King Township councillor, will employ seven foreign workers on his 68-acre celery farm this season
6/12/1989
Craziness pays: At first, Hy Lewis thought his daughter was crazy to buy out his old stores' owners
Craziness pays: At first, Hy Lewis thought his daughter was crazy to buy out his old stores' owners
3/20/1983
Back protector: Albert Marcucci, a Mississauga inventor, plans to invent full-time next year if a recent safety light pays off
Back protector: Albert Marcucci, a Mississauga inventor, plans to invent full-time next year if a recent safety light pays off
1/10/1984
Andrew Nethery, an accountant with a taxable in come of about $20,000 a year, figured out that he pays about $152 a week in taxes
Andrew Nethery, an accountant with a taxable in come of about $20,000 a year, figured out that he pays about $152 a week in taxes
11/17/1971
Teaching history and bookkeeping grosses Michael Crawford $10,000 a year - far less than industry pays men with his training and experience.
Teaching history and bookkeeping grosses Michael Crawford $10,000 a year - far less than industry pays men with his training and experience.
2/25/1967