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Struggling picket
Struggling picket

Struggling picket

Date12/11/1988
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Original Toronto Star caption: Struggling picket: union official Leonard Metcalfe struggles with police at the main Hamilton post office yesterday as workers joined rotating strikes. One packet was arrested and two were treated for injuries. In Metro; busloads of replacement workers stood by to go to work but they weren't needed.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Object NumberTSPA_0017292F
How to picket in the rain, Pickets Bernie Gorman (left) and Merton Ryan ducked into telephone booths to escape driving rain yesterday outside the post(...)
How to picket in the rain, Pickets Bernie Gorman (left) and Merton Ryan ducked into telephone booths to escape driving rain yesterday outside the post(...)
Spremo, Boris
4/22/1974
With a day off from their usual picket duties at Central Technical School three striking math teachers today picket the home of school trustee Dan Lec(...)
With a day off from their usual picket duties at Central Technical School three striking math teachers today picket the home of school trustee Dan Lec(...)
Bull, Ron
11/26/1975
Rainy day picket, A lone picket walks the line outside the Casa Loma campus of George Brown College yesterday
Rainy day picket, A lone picket walks the line outside the Casa Loma campus of George Brown College yesterday
Slaughter, Mike
11/7/1989
Pickets still walk at western, Striking employees of Toronto Western Hospital picket today although the Ontario Labor Relations Board has ruled their (...)
Pickets still walk at western, Striking employees of Toronto Western Hospital picket today although the Ontario Labor Relations Board has ruled their (...)
Spremo, Boris
7/26/1972
Snowman on picket duty, Students picketing Jarvis Collegiate in support of their striking teachers have built a snowman picket in front of the school,(...)
Snowman on picket duty, Students picketing Jarvis Collegiate in support of their striking teachers have built a snowman picket in front of the school,(...)
Brennan, Pat
12/3/1975
Orville reid and his dog, Bambi, lead a picket line today outside the Canadian National Institute for the Blind headquarters on Bayview Ave. Pickets, (...)
Orville reid and his dog, Bambi, lead a picket line today outside the Canadian National Institute for the Blind headquarters on Bayview Ave. Pickets, (...)
Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
3/22/1977
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
Exercise break on picket line, Employee Andrew Lane tosses a football around on the picket line at Lily Cups' Markham Rd. plant yesterday. The union w(...)
Exercise break on picket line, Employee Andrew Lane tosses a football around on the picket line at Lily Cups' Markham Rd. plant yesterday. The union w(...)
Dunlop, Al
1/18/1988
Pickets march is front of the strikebound Oshawa Times after a rally which endorsed continued defiance of an injunction limiting the number of pickets(...)
Pickets march is front of the strikebound Oshawa Times after a rally which endorsed continued defiance of an injunction limiting the number of pickets(...)
Lennon, Frank
2/3/1966
One woman braves the pickets, A lone City Hall employee strides across windswept Nathan Phillips Square, prepared to pass through the massed ranks of (...)
One woman braves the pickets, A lone City Hall employee strides across windswept Nathan Phillips Square, prepared to pass through the massed ranks of (...)
Spremo, Boris
11/4/1966
Pickets pass Union Station on way to express office
Pickets pass Union Station on way to express office
Philp, Barry
2/26/1966
Picket line
Picket line
Calleja, Frank
8/7/1979