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Struggling picket: Union official Leonard Metcalfe struggles with police at the main Hamilton post office yesterday as workers joined rotating strikes
Struggling picket: Union official Leonard Metcalfe struggles with police at the main Hamilton post office yesterday as workers joined rotating strikes

Struggling picket: Union official Leonard Metcalfe struggles with police at the main Hamilton post office yesterday as workers joined rotating strikes

Date10/2/1987
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      ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0130823F
      Backlog of mail that has piled up during the various rotating mail strikes in the Metro area is processed by postal workers at the main office in Toro(...)
      Backlog of mail that has piled up during the various rotating mail strikes in the Metro area is processed by postal workers at the main office in Toro(...)
      Ross, Fred
      6/29/1970
      Ontario Hydro workers, now carrying on a series of rotating strikes, are one group among many public service employees who have walked out this year. (...)
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      Spremo, Boris
      7/12/1972
      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
      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
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      Spremo, Boris
      11/19/1975
      UAW strikes UAW, Workers at a dental clinic set up by Local 222 of the United Auto Workers in Oshawa threw up a picket line around the clinic yesterda(...)
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      McConnell, Colin
      9/27/1979
      Touring Toronto post office, Postmaster-General Eric Kierans shakes hands with postal workers in the main terminal on Front St. yesterday. Postal work(...)
      Touring Toronto post office, Postmaster-General Eric Kierans shakes hands with postal workers in the main terminal on Front St. yesterday. Postal work(...)
      Kierans, Eric W., 1914-2004
      2/14/1969
      Sharing shelter from the rain, striking postal workers Bob Johnson (left) and Art Langley picket the main postal building today while officials were b(...)
      Sharing shelter from the rain, striking postal workers Bob Johnson (left) and Art Langley picket the main postal building today while officials were b(...)
      Spremo, Boris
      1/19/1973
      Postman Barry Davison, 27, father of six children, loses about $24 every time his unit takes a day off because of the rotating strikes. He still hasn'(...)
      Postman Barry Davison, 27, father of six children, loses about $24 every time his unit takes a day off because of the rotating strikes. He still hasn'(...)
      James, Norman
      7/16/1970
      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(...)
      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
      A 46-year-old man is lifted on to a stretcher by ambulance paramedics after being stabbed in an east-end rooming house last night. Right, a suspect struggles with police as he is placed in a cruiser
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      Stancu, Henry
      3/5/1992
      Inside workers, above, picket post office
      Inside workers, above, picket post office
      Goode, Jeff
      12/10/1977