Still from "Shadow Boxers"
Play by Susan Meuer and Alan Booth based on the closing of the Goodyear plant in Etobicoke
unknown
1989
photo
Boilermakers' Dance
Tom Brouilliette created several dance performances with members of the local (of which he was also a member) based on the work and exercises (as they worked in cramped quarters) the workers did. It also used tools and metal as percussive accompaniment (prior to the musical Stomp)
Tom Brouilliette
1994
Still photo from performance (photographer unknown)
Mayworks Poster
Official poster for the second Mayworks festival.
Barbara Klunder
1987
Poster
Queen's Park General Strike Oct 26, 1976 (2)
Mike Constable tempting the A.I.Bee with a big dollar on a string.
Mike Emre (photographer)
1976
Photo
Queen's Park General Strike Oct 26, 1976 (1)
Canada-wide General Strike (October 26, 1976). Demonstration at Queens Park in front of the Ontario legislature.
Mike Emre (photographer)
1976
Photo
Canadian Farmworkers Union
Poster in support of the Canadian Farmworkers Union (CFU) organizing drive in Southern Ontario depicting tobacco pickers, a major crop at the time centered around Delhi, Ontario.
Carole Condé + Karl Beveridge
1979
Offset Poster
Green Jobs, Not Pink Slips
The Green Work Alliance was formed around the closing of the Caterpillar Plant in Toronto to demand it be converted to green production. The Alliance involved environmentalists, unionists (namely from the CAW that represented plant workers) and artists.
Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge
Green Work Alliance
1992-93
Poster
A Time to Rise
Film about South Asian farm workers union in B.C. by Anand Patwardhan and Jim Munro
Poster designer unknown
1980
What Ever Happened To Price Controls?
What Ever Happened To Price Controls? at Labour Day 1977 on Spadina Ave
Mike Emre (photographer)
1977
Photo
Union organizing at the AGO
Poster in support of OPSEU's successful organizing drive at the AGO. The first King Tut exhibition was at the AGO.
Carole Conde & Karl Beveridge
OPSEU
1979
Collage poster