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Site of layoffs
Site of layoffs

Site of layoffs

Date3/9/1987
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Original Toronto Star caption: Site of layoffs: About 800 people work at the AMC plant at Kennedy Rd. and Steeles Ave. in Brampton; where Jeeps and Eagle cars are built. Although there haven't been any layoffs there in the past year; troubled AMC has announced layoffs more than 15 times in the past five years.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0010071F
      Long-time service: Nursing aides from Sick Kids march outside the hospital yesterday, with help from others, to protest planned layoffs
      Long-time service: Nursing aides from Sick Kids march outside the hospital yesterday, with help from others, to protest planned layoffs
      Loek, Dick
      3/21/1993
      Facing the axe: A de Havilland worker, leaving the Downsview plant yesterday with fellow employees, reacts with a thumbs-down to news of 1,300 layoffs
      Facing the axe: A de Havilland worker, leaving the Downsview plant yesterday with fellow employees, reacts with a thumbs-down to news of 1,300 layoffs
      Dunlop, Al
      10/4/1991
      Hard hit: George Farkouh, mayor of Elliot Lake, says his city has 63 per cent unemployement as 400 new layoffs loom.
      Hard hit: George Farkouh, mayor of Elliot Lake, says his city has 63 per cent unemployement as 400 new layoffs loom.
      Lautens, Richard
      3/7/1991
      Responsibility ignored: Charles Bud Clark, Canadian director of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (textile division) and vice-president of the Ontario Federation of Labour, believes the Ontario government should enact legislation to offer workers shelter from layoffs and plant closures.
      Responsibility ignored: Charles Bud Clark, Canadian director of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (textile division) and vice-president of the Ontario Federation of Labour, believes the Ontario government should enact legislation to offer workers shelter from layoffs and plant closures.
      Beaty, Keith
      12/17/1981
      Treasurer Lou Hyndman hints at tax increases and provincial layoffs
      Treasurer Lou Hyndman hints at tax increases and provincial layoffs
      Hyndman, Lou
      1/23/1983
      John Sandford: No pressure for more layoffs., de Havilland president says.
      John Sandford: No pressure for more layoffs., de Havilland president says.
      Russell, Jim
      4/26/1982
      John Macnamara: Comapny reorganization to result in layoffs, mainly in Sault Ste. Marie.
      John Macnamara: Comapny reorganization to result in layoffs, mainly in Sault Ste. Marie.
      Bull, Ron
      9/24/1980
      Future bleak for senior workers still jobless after last year's layoffs
      Future bleak for senior workers still jobless after last year's layoffs
      Dunlop, Al
      11/4/1981
      Carl Christie: Equity trading manager for Canarim investment Corp. and chairman of the Professional Traders Association represents about 450 people, including those working on the Toronto exchange's trading floor. He is critical of the exchange's handling of recent layoffs: That liaison we had with the upstairs (management) has pretty well been completely obliterated.
      Carl Christie: Equity trading manager for Canarim investment Corp. and chairman of the Professional Traders Association represents about 450 people, including those working on the Toronto exchange's trading floor. He is critical of the exchange's handling of recent layoffs: That liaison we had with the upstairs (management) has pretty well been completely obliterated.
      Bock, Tony
      1/22/1988
      A miracle worker to parents of children with emotional problems, Karl Burden, 40, is one of 250 North York teachers facing layoffs. An ordained minister, he left the church to aid young people with problems and helps them at Glen Rush Public School. Parents say his dismissal is a threat to their children.
      A miracle worker to parents of children with emotional problems, Karl Burden, 40, is one of 250 North York teachers facing layoffs. An ordained minister, he left the church to aid young people with problems and helps them at Glen Rush Public School. Parents say his dismissal is a threat to their children.
      Bull, Ron
      5/20/1977
      Algoma chairman: Economic prospects will determine number of layoffs, John MacNamara says.
      Algoma chairman: Economic prospects will determine number of layoffs, John MacNamara says.
      Bull, Ron
      7/20/1984
      Leo Goldstein, We don't have layoffs
      Leo Goldstein, We don't have layoffs
      Darrell, Dick
      3/3/1971