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Defiant worker
Defiant worker

Defiant worker

Date9/16/1986
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Original Toronto Star caption: Defiant worker: Irene Haines; a 40-year garment factory worker; patrols the doorways of Spadina Ave. factories defying deliverymen. Her union is on strike for better wages.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Object NumberTSPA_0016589F
Defiant postal workers leave court
Defiant postal workers leave court
Lennon, Frank
10/23/1978
Defiant TTC strikers leave a union meeting yesterday in a Scarborough curling rink at which they voted to hold a secret ballot tomorrow on whether to (...)
Defiant TTC strikers leave a union meeting yesterday in a Scarborough curling rink at which they voted to hold a secret ballot tomorrow on whether to (...)
Loek, Dick
9/1/1974
Defiant TTC strikers leave a union meeting yesterday in a Scarborough curling rink at which they voted to hold a secret ballot tomorrow on whether to (...)
Defiant TTC strikers leave a union meeting yesterday in a Scarborough curling rink at which they voted to hold a secret ballot tomorrow on whether to (...)
Loek, Dick
9/1/1974
Museum Workers Picket, Striking workers picket the Royal Ontario Museum yesterday after about 90 security guards, cleaners and maintenance workers, me(...)
Museum Workers Picket, Striking workers picket the Royal Ontario Museum yesterday after about 90 security guards, cleaners and maintenance workers, me(...)
Mahler, John
10/22/1989
Etobicoke workers hit the bricks, Outside workers in Etobicoke man a picket line at the city's Bering Ave
Etobicoke workers hit the bricks, Outside workers in Etobicoke man a picket line at the city's Bering Ave
Combs, Erin
7/25/1984
Replacement workers keep their heads down as they are bused past striking postal workers and into the South Central plant on Eastern Ave
Replacement workers keep their heads down as they are bused past striking postal workers and into the South Central plant on Eastern Ave
Brazao, Dale
10/11/1987
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
An illegal strike of postal workers shortly before Christmas was touched off by the assignment of casual workers to automated equipment. The Post Offi(...)
An illegal strike of postal workers shortly before Christmas was touched off by the assignment of casual workers to automated equipment. The Post Offi(...)
Cooper, David
12/8/1977
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(...)
Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
11/9/1972
A confrontation between Alderman David Rotenberg and about two dozen striking civic workers took place yesterday in Rotenberg's office. The workers ac(...)
A confrontation between Alderman David Rotenberg and about two dozen striking civic workers took place yesterday in Rotenberg's office. The workers ac(...)
Spremo, Boris
4/26/1972
Auto workers picket in Oshawa, These striking General Motors' workers are all smiles as they gather around a bonfire of wood and tires they built on t(...)
Auto workers picket in Oshawa, These striking General Motors' workers are all smiles as they gather around a bonfire of wood and tires they built on t(...)
Dunlop, Al
10/17/1984
Workers rise early to vote, Striking TTC workers turned out early this morning at the Inn on the Park to begin voting on what was billed as the Ontario Labor Relations Board final offer
Workers rise early to vote, Striking TTC workers turned out early this morning at the Inn on the Park to begin voting on what was billed as the Ontario Labor Relations Board final offer
Spremo, Boris
9/19/1991