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Shouting and waving defiantly, postal mechanics demonstrate today in front of Canada's largest postal sorting station, the Gateway plant in Mississaug(...)
Shouting and waving defiantly, postal mechanics demonstrate today in front of Canada's largest postal sorting station, the Gateway plant in Mississaug(...)

Shouting and waving defiantly, postal mechanics demonstrate today in front of Canada's largest postal sorting station, the Gateway plant in Mississaug(...)

Date8/23/1988
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  • Shouting and waving defiantly, postal mechanics demonstrate today in front of Canada's largest postal sorting station, the Gateway plant in Mississaug(...)
  • Shouting and waving defiantly; postal mechanics demonstrate today in front of Canada's largest postal sorting station; the Gateway plant in Mississauga. Canada Post started suspending them on the eve of a strike deadline.
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Original Toronto Star caption: Shouting and waving defiantly; postal mechanics demonstrate today in front of Canada's largest postal sorting station; the Gateway plant in Mississauga. Canada Post started suspending them on the eve of a strike deadline.
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Gateway clash: Police officers surround and drag off a picket after a clash with Canadian Union of Postal Workers members at the Gateway sorting station in Mississauga
Gateway clash: Police officers surround and drag off a picket after a clash with Canadian Union of Postal Workers members at the Gateway sorting station in Mississauga
Millar, Cal
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Back sorting the mail, Jean Hill works with other postal employees who crossed the picket line at Don Mills post office
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Striking postal workers picket Toronto's main postal station
Striking postal workers picket Toronto's main postal station
Goode, Jeff
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Strike, Members of the Toronto local of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers voted narrowly to extend their strike to all Metro postal stations. Paul (...)
Strike, Members of the Toronto local of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers voted narrowly to extend their strike to all Metro postal stations. Paul (...)
Bezant, Graham
12/10/1977
Shouting and placard-waving parents and pupils were held back momentarily by barricades at the Legislature today before breaking through into hallways(...)
Shouting and placard-waving parents and pupils were held back momentarily by barricades at the Legislature today before breaking through into hallways(...)
Combs, Erin
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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
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Striking letter carriers, above, picket outside postal station during recent mail strike
Cooper, David
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Postal worker Ken Lee says he dislikes closing down the nation's postal service
Postal worker Ken Lee says he dislikes closing down the nation's postal service
Mahler, John
10/30/1975
Postal Workers Vote On Strike, The decisive ballots in the vote on whether there will be a nation-wide postal strike are being cast today and tomorrow(...)
Postal Workers Vote On Strike, The decisive ballots in the vote on whether there will be a nation-wide postal strike are being cast today and tomorrow(...)
Bezant, Graham
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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
Mail walkout begins as pickets today took up positions around Postal Terminal A in Toronto, and 34 other postal buildings in the city. Sam Chuck (righ(...)
Mail walkout begins as pickets today took up positions around Postal Terminal A in Toronto, and 34 other postal buildings in the city. Sam Chuck (righ(...)
Teskey, Frank
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Angry postal workers burn their union cards after they were refused entry to a meeting of 3,000 striking Metro postal workers at Queen Elizabeth Build(...)
Angry postal workers burn their union cards after they were refused entry to a meeting of 3,000 striking Metro postal workers at Queen Elizabeth Build(...)
Darrell, Dick
12/1/1975