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CBC News Looking Back: The Regina Riot
This is an eyewitness account of the 1935 On-to-Ottawa trek and the riot that ended it.
- 2001
- 00:05:38
- 13-14
- Added on: 02/08/2021
CBC News Looking Back: Murdered by the RCMP
Estevan-area coal miners fight for better working conditions and run head-long into the trigger-happy RCMP.
- 1999
- 00:04:11
- 13-14
- Added on: 01/27/2021
CBC Radio One Raid or Liberation
In 1943, unionism came to Sudbury, Ontario in the form of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, also known as Mine Mill. In an organizing drive which set a record, the Mine Mill union signed up a majority of workers within three months. By the time of this program's broadcast 20 years later, workers' wages had trebled, ...
- 1962
- 00:50:02
- 13-14
- Added on: 09/15/2020
The National The legacy of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike
Winnipeg is marking one of the seminal strikes in Canadian history. One hundred years ago, tens of thousands of workers walked off the job in what would come to be known as the Winnipeg General Strike.
- 2019
- 00:02:51
- 13-14
- Added on: 07/23/2019
News in Review - April 1993 Giant Mine Strike: The Price of Gold
In this account of events surrounding the fatal bombing during the 1992-93 Giant Mine Strike in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, we examine the issues relating to Canada's one-industry towns, union-management relations, and the role of the police in such situations.
- 1993
- 00:13:11
- 13-14
- Added on: 04/20/2016
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News in Review - September 1998 Flint, Michigan: Labour's Last Stand
The strike at General Motors was settled at the end of July 1998. The sprawling auto giant has been falling behind the competition from the leaner and more efficient Ford and Chrystler. GM wanted to farm out a chunk of its parts manufacturing, allowing it to shut down some plants and lay off workers, hopefully increasing profits. It was a ...
- 1998
- 00:12:27
- 13-14
- Added on: 12/09/2014
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CBC News Bloody Saturday: The Winnipeg General Strike
In May 1919, 30,000 Winnipeg workers walked off the job and into the history books, launching the largest strike in Canadian history. It lasted six weeks and ended in the violence of Bloody Saturday, a day organized labour has never forgotten or forgiven. Was the strike a legitimate protest against low wages, poor working conditions and a lack of bargaining ...
- 2007
- 00:45:37
- 13-14
- Added on: 06/14/2013
News in Review - November 2012 Ontario Teachers and Democratic Rights
With a provincial deficit approaching $15 billion and a debt load of over $200 billion, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty made it clear to the public sector that wages would be frozen until the province’s finances could be brought back to a reasonable level. Caught in the cross hairs of this threat were Ontario’s teachers whose contracts were set to expire ...
- 2012
- 00:14:44
- 13-14
- Added on: 11/15/2012
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News in Review - December 1999 Pay Equity: Work of Equal Value
After a long struggle on the part of federal government employees — the majority of them women — to win back wages owing to them because of what they claimed were discriminatory practices, an assessment that was confirmed by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, the federal government of Canada finally settled in this landmark legal case. It offered to compensate ...
- 1999
- 00:10:11
- 13-14
- Added on: 12/15/1999
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News in Review - September 1999 Overworked and Underpaid: Nurses Strike Back
During the spring and summer of 1999, nurses across Canada either went on strike or threatened strikes to redress what they say is too much work and too little pay as a result of government cutbacks in health care. The illegal strike in Quebec, which led to a major confrontation between nurses and the government of Lucien Bouchard, and the ...
- 1999
- 00:12:16
- 13-14
- Added on: 09/15/1999
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News in Review - February 1997 Canadian Airlines: Fighting to Survive
The issues of management skills, pressure from an American corporate partner, competition from Air Canada and union intransigence are focal points for this story.
- 1997
- 00:14:35
- 13-14
- Added on: 02/15/1997
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News in Review - December 1996 A Day of Protest: Shutting Down Toronto
This report looks at a case study in labour’s attempt to rally support against a way of governing that it says is widening the gulf between the rich and poor.
- 1996
- 00:12:31
- 13-14
- Added on: 12/15/1996
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News in Review - December 1996 The GM Strike: Driving in New Directions
Outsourcing, the changing global automobile industry, new international alignments and the significance of this strike in terms of labour history are the focal points of this report.
- 1996
- 00:14:38
- 13-14
- Added on: 12/15/1996
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News in Review - October 1991 On Strike!
In this report we review the recent postal, public service and transit strikes and we explore the history of the labour movement in Canada.
- 1991
- 00:13:48
- 13-14
- Added on: 10/15/1991
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News in Review - February 1991 The Manitoba Nurses' Strike
This strike leads us to an examination of the nursing profession and Canada's health care system.
- 1991
- 00:13:19
- 13-14
- Added on: 02/15/1991
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