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Angry strike tries to stop a worker from crossing the Public Service Alliance of Canada picket line outside the federal building on Adelaide St. today(...)
Angry strike tries to stop a worker from crossing the Public Service Alliance of Canada picket line outside the federal building on Adelaide St. today(...)

Angry strike tries to stop a worker from crossing the Public Service Alliance of Canada picket line outside the federal building on Adelaide St. today(...)

Date10/2/1980
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Original Toronto Star caption: Angry strike tries to stop a worker from crossing the Public Service Alliance of Canada picket line outside the federal building on Adelaide St. today. Most of the workers waited for a management escort through the lines; but trouble developed when some just pushed their way through pickets.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0016466F
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      Striking members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada picket outside the main Post Office building on Lakeshore Blvd. A strike by members of essen(...)
      Goode, Jeff
      2/17/1974
      Man in coast, is being rushed out by a shirt-sleeved worker while a third man tries to stop him during the melee in Leaside. Disorder broke out when A.F. of L. Workers tried to pass C.I.O. pickets
      Man in coast, is being rushed out by a shirt-sleeved worker while a third man tries to stop him during the melee in Leaside. Disorder broke out when A.F. of L. Workers tried to pass C.I.O. pickets
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      5/3/1948
      Bags of mail piled up at Terminal A during the mail holdup caused by the Public Service Alliance picket lines
      Bags of mail piled up at Terminal A during the mail holdup caused by the Public Service Alliance picket lines
      Spremo, Boris
      2/28/1975
      Angry women picket pulls the hair of a worker of the same sex outside the Hamilton Cotton plant today as tempers reached a new high in the second day (...)
      Angry women picket pulls the hair of a worker of the same sex outside the Hamilton Cotton plant today as tempers reached a new high in the second day (...)
      Bryant, George
      11/12/1952
      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(...)
      Griffin, Doug
      6/9/1970
      Determined Strikers, Public service employees walk the picket line yesterday at Terminal 3 at Pearson International Airport. Today the strike enters its eighty day
      Determined Strikers, Public service employees walk the picket line yesterday at Terminal 3 at Pearson International Airport. Today the strike enters its eighty day
      Stawicki, Andrew
      9/15/1991
      Guards demand better pensions, About 200 angry jail guards picket outside a downtown government building today in a protest over contract talks. The g(...)
      Guards demand better pensions, About 200 angry jail guards picket outside a downtown government building today in a protest over contract talks. The g(...)
      Lennon, Frank
      4/6/1989
      Bell Canada workers on a wildcat strike picket the company's Adelaide St
      Bell Canada workers on a wildcat strike picket the company's Adelaide St
      Bull, Ron
      10/22/1971
      Crossing the picket lines of inside workers, letter-carriers leave the main postal station on Bay St
      Crossing the picket lines of inside workers, letter-carriers leave the main postal station on Bay St
      Goode, Jeff
      4/20/1974
      Claude Edwards, president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, says he does not believe strikes can be outlawed and that a ban of strikes did not(...)
      Claude Edwards, president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, says he does not believe strikes can be outlawed and that a ban of strikes did not(...)
      Darrell, Dick
      9/26/1972
      Strikes - Canada - Public Service Alliance of Canada
      Strikes - Canada - Public Service Alliance of Canada
      Stawicki, Andrew
      9/15/1991
      Strikes - Canada - Public Service Alliance of Canada
      Strikes - Canada - Public Service Alliance of Canada
      Spremo, Boris
      9/9/1991