Labour Movement

This subsection contains material on labour organizing by women. Key themes include centring women’s issues at the bargaining table, fighting workplace discrimination and harassment, striking for better pay and working conditions, and forging solidarity between the women’s movement and the labour movement.

Archival Materials

Audio
Oh Come All Ye Shoppers

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Musical Artist/Group:

    The Red Berets

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Union Maid

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Musical Artist/Group:

    The Red Berets

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English

Buttons

This Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) button is a declaration of support for women's growing role in the labour movement and in the workforce. It challenges the traditional view that women's place is "in the kitchen". Many unions developed similar buttons and slogans.
A Woman’s Place is in Her Union

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
A Woman’s Place is in Her Union

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Undated CUC button in support of women in the union.
A Woman’s Place is in Her Union – CUC

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Undated United Auto Workers button: "A Woman's Place is in Her Union."
A Woman’s Place is in Her Union – TUA/UAW

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
This is an undated button created by Canadian Union of Postal Workers in celebration of March 8th, International Women's Day.
A woman’s place is in the struggle: International Women’s Day March 8th (CUPW)

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
A Woman’s Place is in Her Union

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
A Woman’s Place Is In Her Union – OFL

  • Year created:

    --

  • Language:

    English
This undated button is in support of Union of Bank Employees on strike at the Bank of Commerce.
Bank Busters – Union of Bank Employees On Strike at the Commerce

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    British Columbia, Ontario

  • Language:

    English
This is a solidarity button for the women on a six-month strike against Eaton's in 1984-1985, fighting for decent wages and working conditions. The strike received a lot of support from the labour movement, the feminist movement, and the arts and faith communities.
Boycott Eaton’s

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Build OPSEU – A Union Undivided – Build OPSEU Women’s Caucus

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
This International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) button calls on people to buy Canadian-made clothing and save jobs.
Buy Canadian – Save Our Jobs (ILGWU)

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
This undated button of the Canadian Auto Workers highlights the role of unions in supporting women and women in building their unions.
CAW/TCA Canada: Women Building Union Building Women

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
This button celebrating International Women's Day was produced by the Canadian Employment and Immigration Union (CEIU) and highlights the strength of feminist and labour solidarity and collective action.
Collective Action Collective Strength – International Women’s Day (CEIU)

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Undated button by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 1230 calling for support of library workers at the University of Toronto.
CUPE 1230: Support library workers – fight cutbacks

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Undated Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) button commemorating December 6th Day of Mourning.
December 6th. Mourn. Organize. Change. Hope (CUPW)

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Employment Equity – Canadian Union of Public Employees

  • Year created:

    --

  • Visual Artist:

    Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)

  • Language:

    English
Undated button by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE/SCEP) in support of employment equity in Ontario.
Employment Equity for a better Ontario – CUPE/SCEP

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Canadian Auto Workers button to commemorate Dec. 6 and calling for an end to violence against women and our daughters.
End violence for our daughters: CAW/TCA

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
EQUALITY – Newfoundland Association of Public Employees

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Newfoundland and Labrador

  • Language:

    English
Fleck: It’s Everyone’s Fight!

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Good Enough to Work … Good Enough to Unionize

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
This button represents solidarity with the thousands of women who worked as operators Bell Canada and endured very poor pay and working conditions. The unionization of Bell Canada operators by the Communications Workers was a huge victory for working women and the labour movement.
Help Crack Bell

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Button distributed by CUPE Locals 1806, 1582 and 2758 during the strike at the Toronto Metro Reference Library in 1984.
Hi Tech Goodbye Jobs – Metro Toronto Library Workers

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
"Kids, not cash" was a provincial campaign to improve the quality of child care and ensure it was non-profit. The campaign was organized jointly by the Ontario Coalition for Better Day Care and the Ontario Federation of Labour.
kids, not cash – Non Profit Child Care

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
This undated button was created by the SEIC Comité des Femmes for International Women's Day.
Les Femmes prennent du terrain – La Journée Internationale de la Femme (SEIC)

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    French
Local 23-25 ILGWU

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
This International Ladies Garment Workers' Union button supports union=made and made-in-Canada clothing.
Made in Canada: Union Made – ILGWU Canada

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
March 8 mars

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
March 8 Mars CLC – CTC

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
March 8th Sisters Unite! for progress and security – CUPW

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
This is a CUPE Local 1582 button from the 1984 strike at the Toronto Metro Reference Library.
Metro Library – Keep it user friendly

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Mini-Skools workers, members of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), went on strike for higher wages in October 1982. Mini-Skools is the Canadian division of U.S. corporation Kinder-Care, which ran 700 for-profit day care centres in the U.S. at the time of the strike. Solidarity for the strikers came from feminist, labour, and child care activists.
Mini-Skools Pays Mini-Wages

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
During the 1978-79 Sudbury Inco Miners’ Strike by the Steelworkers, wives organized to build community support and show strong solidarity. This button was part of that successful campaign. The Wives Support Committee also sent representatives to march in the Toronto International Women’s Day March of 1980.
No More Nickels, No More Dimes – Wives Supporting 1005 Strikers

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL): Ontario can work!

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
This button from the 1982 Organized Working Women Conference features the slogan "Women for Unions, Unions for Women".
Organized Working Women (OWW): Women for Unions – Unions for Women

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Our Union is For All of Us! OPSEU Women’s Caucus

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
This is an undated button for International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) drive to organize women working in clothing sweatshops.
out of the sweatshops – ILGWU Garment Workers Unite!

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
pay equity….what’s the key?

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Saskatchewan

  • Language:

    English
Please don’t shop at Eaton’s

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Visual Artist:

    Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)

  • Language:

    English
Save the Nursing Team

  • Year created:

    1991

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
The Service Office Retail Workers Union Canada (SORWUC) was created to organize workers in predominantly female job sectors, especially the retail, bank, and service industries, traditionally ignored by unions. It was established on the principle of working women organizing and controlling their own unions.
Service Office Retail Workers Union Canada (SORWUC) – A Union for Working Women

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
This button was created by the Canadian Labour Congress/Congrès du Travail du Canada (CLC-CTC) to show labour solidarity with LGBTQ+ activism and union members.
Solidarité Pride Fierté – Canadian Labour Congress/ Congrès du Travail du Canada

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
Solidarity

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
The Women's Committee of the Canada Employment and Immigration Union (CEIU) promoted the importance of union involvement by women.
Strong Women Strong Union – C.E.I.U. Women’s Committee

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Button produced by Sudbury Women Miners highlights the need for childcare.
Sudbury Can’t Work Without Child Care

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
This is a button in support of the Metro Toronto Library Workers, members of CUPE Locals 1582, 1806, and 2758, during their tough negotiations and strike in the fall of 1984.
Support Library Workers: CUPE Locals 1582-1806-2758

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Technology Yes! Takeaways No!

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Undated button for the Union internationale des ouvriers du vêtement pour dames/International Ladies Garment Workers Union (UIOVD/ILGWU).
UIOVD-ILGWU

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
"Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History" pin owned by Cathy Mulroy, one of the women involved in the fight to win access to jobs at INCO in Sudbury.
Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women of Steel button combining women symbol with Steelworkers - Metallos logo
Woman of Steel – Steelworkers

  • Year created:

    1990

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women & Unions … Stronger Together!

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
"Women and Unions - Equal Partners" produced by the Canadian Labour Congress.
Women and Unions – Equal Partners

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Undated Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) button: "Women make the union strong."
Women make the union strong – cupw.sttp

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Button for the Women's 1996 March Against Poverty and featuring the theme "For Bread and Roses - For Jobs and Justice". The cross-country action was organized by the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) and the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC).
Women’s March Against Poverty: For Bread and Roses/ For Jobs and Justice – May-June 15, 1996

  • Year created:

    1996

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
‘tis not the meek that shall inherit the Earth – but the militant

  • Year created:

    --

  • Visual Artist:

    Mother Jones

  • Language:

    English

Documents

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A Century of Women And Work 1900-2000

  • Year created:

    2000andafter

  • Author(s):

    Lynn Simmons

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
A Contract for the Finance Industry

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
A Letter to Friends of Judy Darcy/Une lettre aux amis de Judy Darcy

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Author(s):

    Judy Darcy

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
A Long Way Yet to Go (Forum) – February 1983

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Author(s):

    Shelagh Luka

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
A Union for Bank Employees

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
A Union for the Finance Industry

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
A union means we’ll go on strike?

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
A Women’s Committee Can Make Your Union Work For You

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Author(s):

    Wendy Cuthbertson

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
A Women’s Committee can make your Union work for you

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Author(s):

    Wendy Cuthbertson, Peggy Nash

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Abortion Rights is a Union Issue!

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Affirmative Action

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
An Account to Settle: The Story of the United Bank Workers (SORWUC)

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Author(s):

    Bank Book Collective, including , Jackie Ainsworth, Sheree Butt, Charlotte Johnson, Helen Potrebenko, Denise Poupard, Jean Rands, Linda Read, Ulryke Weissgerber, Dodie Zerr

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Background Information on Family Benefits and Childbirth Leave

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Bad Boss Stories: Workers Whose Bosses Break the Law

  • Year created:

    1996

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Bank of BC Employees – Join Us!

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Bargaining for Women in the Nineties

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Blueprint for the future – Our future is our children

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
boycott cunninghams – Solidarity with the Hosken Strike

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Brenda Makeechak Speaks Out

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
British Columbia Federation of Labour – Report on Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
British Columbia Federation of Labour – Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: A Discussion Paper

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Author(s):

    B. Gene Errington

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
But Won’t We Have To Punch A Time Clock?

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
CACSW – Working Together: Women and Unions/CCCSF – Travailler ensemble: les femmes et le syndicalisme

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
CACSW Fact Sheet – Sexual Harassment/Feuillet Documentaire du CCCSF – Le Harcèlement Sexuel

  • Year created:

    1993

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
Call Letter for 1981 Canadian UAW Women’s Conference

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Author(s):

    Edith Johnston, Robert White

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
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Canadian Labour (excerpts) – November- December 1985

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
thumbnail of Canadian Labour Congress Statement on Women’s Rights -1974
Canadian Labour Congress Statement on Women’s Rights -1974

  • Year created:

    1974

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
thumbnail of Canadian Labour Congress Submission on Bill C-62 Employment Equity
Canadian Labour Congress Submission on Bill C-62 Employment Equity

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) – Fighting for Equality: Backgrounder Number 3

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) – Fighting for Equality: Part-Timers

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) – Protection From Discrimination: You Have It – Use It!

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) – The Coder Classification Dispute: Fighting for Equal Pay

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) – Affirmative Action: Putting a Stop to Sex Discrimination

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) – Sexual Harassment: Why It’s Important to Negotiate Clauses on this Issue

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Author(s):

    Jane Stinson

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE): 10 Pay Equity Myths

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE): Heading ‘Em Off at the Pay Gap

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE/SCFP) – The status of women in CUPE/ la situation de la femme dans le SCFP

  • Year created:

    1971

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
Canadian Women’s Conference Agenda – September 1981

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Author(s):

    Edith Johnston, Wendy Cuthbertson

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
CAW Statement on Affirmative Action

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Childcare for Working People: UAW Position on Child Care Presented to the Ontario Federation of Labour’s Child Care Forum

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Author(s):

    Wendy Cuthbertson

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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CLC Policy Paper on Women and Affirmative Action/CTC- énoncé de politique sur les femmes et l’accès à l’égalité

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
thumbnail of CLC December 6th Statement 1992
CLC Statement December 6, 1992: A National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women

  • Year created:

    1992

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
CLC Submission to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women (1968)

  • Year created:

    1968

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Coalition for Fair Wages and Working Conditions for Homeworkers – Backgrounder

  • Year created:

    1993

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada), Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Coalition for Fair Wages and Working Conditions for Homeworkers Fact Sheet

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Count Me In

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Count Me In: Special Insert (Update) – May 1982

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Author(s):

    Shelagh Luka

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Creating Family Friendly Workplaces: What Unions Can Do

  • Year created:

    1993

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Current Exchange – Special Issue

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
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Data Analysis for CLC Women and Work Project

  • Year created:

    1995

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Data Centers – What Can A Union Do For Us?

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Day Care

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Dedication: Fran Sobado for Vice-President at Large

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Diversity, Solidarity, Employment Equity: A Commitment to Equality

  • Year created:

    1994

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Eatons on Legal Strike

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Elect Carol Phillips for OFL Vice-President 1986

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Elect Edith Johnston for OFL Vice-President 1986

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Elect Irene Harris: OFL Vice President 1993

  • Year created:

    1993

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English and French
Elect Jane Armstrong: OFL Vice President 1995

  • Year created:

    1995

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English and French
Elect Judy Darcy for OFL Vice-President 1988

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Elect Judy!/Élisez Judy!

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
Elect Julie Griffin for the 1st Executive Vice-President of the OFL 1986

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Elect Miriam Edelson: OFL Vice-President 1993

  • Year created:

    1993

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English and French
Elect Peggy Nash for OFL Vice-President 1991

  • Year created:

    1991

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English and French
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Equal Partners for Change: Women and Unions

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Equal Partners for Change: Women and Unions – Here to Stay: Women in the Work Force

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
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Equal Partners for Change: Women and Unions – Speak Up: Sexual Harassment on the Job

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Equal Partners for Change: Women and Unions – To Seize the Good: The History of Women in Unions

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Equal Partners for Change: Women and Unions – Who Will Mind the Children

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Equal Partners for Change: Women and Unions – Women and the Canadian Labour Congress

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Equal Partners for Change: Women and Unions – Fit to Work: Health on the Job

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Equal Partners for Change: Women and Unions – Going further

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Equal Partners for Change: Women and Unions – Reaping the Benefits

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Equal Partners for Change: Women and Unions – Using Your Union

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Equal Pay for Equal Work

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value

  • Year created:

    1977

  • Author(s):

    Margot Trevelyan, Madeleine Parent, Michelle Swenarchuk, Marymay Downing, Mary Cornish

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Ethel LaValley & Fred Upshaw

  • Year created:

    1993

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Fact Sheet – Aboriginal Women and Poverty

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Fact Sheet – Equal Pay for Work of Equal Value

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Fact Sheet – Women of Colour

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Fleck Strike Women’s Solidarity Day Flyer

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Hands Off the Family Allowance – May 1st

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    Other
How many times have you been passed over for promotion?

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
How Much Overtime Do You Do?

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Inclusive Language: A Sex Equity Issue

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Inco 1978-1979 Strike

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Author(s):

    Ryan

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
International Women’s Day Forum: Prabha Khosla Speech (1983)

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Author(s):

    Prabha Khosla

  • Language:

    English
International Women’s Day Toronto (1984) – Pamphlet

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
International Women’s Day Invitation

  • Year created:

    1991

  • Author(s):

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
is your paycheque a secret?

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Issues & Campaigns: Reclaim Our Future – Make It Work/Prendre notre avenir en main – Au boulot!

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
IWDC Letter Urging Support for Women’s Solidarity Actions for Fleck Strikers

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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IWDC Women’s Strike Support (1979)

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Join SORWUC

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Join the Rally to Stop the Exploitation of Homeworkers!

  • Year created:

    1993

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Join Us!

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Letter – Petition (May 1977)

  • Year created:

    1977

  • Author(s):

    Ellen Agger

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Letter – Request for Financial Support (1992)

  • Year created:

    1992

  • Author(s):

    Alexandra Dagg

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Letter Announcing Meeting of Canadian UAW Women’s Committee – May 1981

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Author(s):

    Edith Johnston

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Letter Inviting Applications to 1st OSSTF Status of Women Committee

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Louisette Hinton: A woman dedicated to the labour movement

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
Mail and Female (Forum) – October/November 1981

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Author(s):

    Ferne Sinkins

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Making Affirmative Action Work: Canadian Labour Congress 5th Biennial Women’s Conference

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
Making Up the Difference: Mandatory Affirmative Action (Forum) – October/November 1983

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Author(s):

    Shelagh Luka

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Mary Simms for Vice President 1991

  • Year created:

    1991

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Memo to UAW Canadian Director – July 24, 1981

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Author(s):

    Gord Wilson

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Metro Toronto Library Strike – Proposed Settlement

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Minutes – UAW Canadian Council Women’s Committee – July 8, 1981

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Author(s):

    Marg Hewitt

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Minutes – UAW Women’s Advisory Council – May 8, 1981

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Minutes of Canadian UAW Council Women’s Committee – April 14, 1981

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Author(s):

    Marg Hewitt

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Money for Waitresses is Money for All Women!

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Motherhood, Lesbianism, and Child Custody: The Case for Wages for Housework

  • Year created:

    1976

  • Author(s):

    Francie Wyland

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
National Union of Provincial Government Employees (NUPGE) – Bargaining for Equality

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Author(s):

    Susan Attenborough

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
National Union of Public and General Employees (NUPGE) – Sexual Harassment at Work

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Author(s):

    Susan Attenborough

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Nego-News: CUPE Local 1582 – May 1984

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Negotiating Towards Equality – Paid Maternity Leave

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
No Easy Recipe: Building the Diversity & Strength of the Labour Movement (1996)

  • Year created:

    1998

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Now More Than Ever, Our Union Needs Leadership

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Author(s):

    Carrol Anne Sceviour, Gaye Lamb

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
One Good Issue, One Good Leader/Celle qui sert, celle qui mène

  • Year created:

    1990

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
thumbnail of Ontario Federation of Labour Affirmative Action Coalition Statement (1985)
Ontario Federation of Labour Affirmative Action Coalition Statement (1985)

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
thumbnail of Ontario Federation of Labour Bill C-144 Submission – One in Four is Not Good Enough (1988)
Ontario Federation of Labour Bill C-144 Submission – One in Four is Not Good Enough (1988)

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
thumbnail of Ontario Federation of Labour Brief to Special Parliamentary Committee on Child Care (1986)
Ontario Federation of Labour Brief to Special Parliamentary Committee on Child Care (1986)

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Author(s):

    Cliff Pilkey, Janis Sarra, Beth Williams

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
thumbnail of Ontario Federation of Labour Convention Document (1991) – Challenging Harassment
Ontario Federation of Labour Convention Document (1991) – Challenging Harassment

  • Year created:

    1991

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English and French
thumbnail of Ontario Federation of Labour Convention Statement (1980) – Day Care
Ontario Federation of Labour Convention Statement (1980) – Day Care

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
thumbnail of Ontario Federation of Labour Convention Statement on Women (1975)
Ontario Federation of Labour Convention Statement on Women (1975)

  • Year created:

    1975

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
thumbnail of Ontario Federation of Labour Parental Rights & Day Care Bargaining Guide (1982)
Ontario Federation of Labour Parental Rights & Day Care Bargaining Guide (1982)

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Author(s):

    Shelley Acheson, Catherine Macleod

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
thumbnail of Ontario Federation of Labour Submission to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women (1968)
Ontario Federation of Labour Submission to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women (1968)

  • Year created:

    1968

  • Author(s):

    Ontario Federation of Labour

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Ontario Pay Equity Law: One Million Denied

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Operator, May I Help You?

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Opportunity For Choice – Affirmative Action for School Boards

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Opportunity For Choice: Status/Affirmative Action Conference Programme

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Organized Working Women – Information Pamphlet

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
OSSTF Affirmative Action Project Update

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Author(s):

    Preiss Shulman and Associates

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
OSSTF Membership Summary (1986)

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
OSSTF Status of Women Membership Survey 1985

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Author(s):

    Avebury Research and Consulting

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
OSSTF Status of Women Membership Survey 1985: Conclusions and Recommendations

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
OSSTF Urges Amend this Pay Equity Legislation (Update) – October 1986

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Overpaid?

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Pay Equity: It’s Only Fair

  • Year created:

    1990

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Pay Equity: What’s the Story?

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Picket – On Strike Against Eatons

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Author(s):

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Position Paper on Day Care – OFL Executive Council Meeting

  • Year created:

    1972

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Pre-Nego News – November 1983

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Public Meeting: Support for Women on strike at Puretex Knitting Co

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) – Affirmative Action in the Public Service: More Talk than Action: Report and Letter

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Author(s):

    Bonnie Carroll

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) – Sexual Harassment Fact Sheet

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Public Service Alliance of Canada – Sexual Harassment At Work

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Re-Elect Irene Harris as OFL Vice-President 1995

  • Year created:

    1995

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English and French
Re-Elect Mary Simms for OFL Vice-President 1993

  • Year created:

    1993

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Reflections of an Ex-Status of Women Committee Member (Forum) – December 1982

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Author(s):

    Mike Miller

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Rehire the Three Pratt Women

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Author(s):

    Pratt Three Defence Committee

  • Region:

    Quebec

  • Language:

    English
Report (1981): Daycare Deadline 1990 – A Brief to the Government of Ontario

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Report (1987): Kids Not Cash

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Report (1993): Employers, Unions and Child Care

  • Year created:

    1993

  • Author(s):

    Jane Bertrand

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Report from the Canadian Labour Congress Women’s Conference

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Report of the Presentation of Daycare Deadline: 1990

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Author(s):

    Shelley Acheson

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Resolution No. 1 – Child Care Facilities

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Author(s):

    UAW Local 199 Women's Committee

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Roxie Baker for Vice-President at Large

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
RWDSU Organizing Update

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Secretaries Win More than Flowers & Lunches

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Sexual Harassment – Harcèlement sexuel

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
Sexual Harassment Conference: Agenda

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Region:

    Nova Scotia

  • Language:

    English
Sharing the Caring: Ontario Federation of Labour Discussion Paper on Day Care

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Short Circuit: Women in the Automated Office (1985)

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Author(s):

    Amy Gottlieb, Rhonda Hammer, Jennifer Horsman, Marie Lorenzo, Liza McCoy, Ann Porter, Glynis Sherwood, Lynda Yanz

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Solidarity Motion for Fleck Strikers

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Something to feel good about

  • Year created:

    1993

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
SORWUC National Union Constitution (1980)

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
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Special Issues for Union Women Today – CLC Women’s Bureau

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Statement on sexual harassment

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Status of Women Committee – One Year Later!

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Status of Women: Workshops, Resources, Services

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Step Two: Bank Employees Form Own Local!

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Stop Harassment – A Guide for CUPE Locals

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Strike Bulletin – November 9, 1984

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Strike Bulletin – October 10, 1984

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Strike Bulletin – Ontario Division Strike Appeal

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Strike Looms at Metro Library – News Release

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Strikes and Support Systems: What Happened in Sudbury

  • Year created:

    --

  • Author(s):

    Lois Haywood, Ernie Taylor

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Submission to the Parliamentary Task Force on Child Care

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Survival is the Issue in the Metro Library Strike: A Message to the Public

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Surviving and Thriving: Kootenay Women in Trades and Technology and Employment Equity

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Teachers And Maternity Leave

  • Year created:

    1977

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Ten years later… Exploding the Myths

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
The CAW And Childcare

  • Year created:

    1995

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
The Effect of Sexism on the Career Development of Teachers

  • Year created:

    1976

  • Author(s):

    Carol Reich, Helen LaFountaine

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
The Pattern of Female Employment at De Havilland Aircraft: Brief to the Commission of Inquiry on Equality in Employment

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Author(s):

    Wendy Cuthbertson

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
The Status of Women Within B.C. Federation of Labour Affiliated Unions

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
They’re Counting On You – They are the bank workers of Canada

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Toronto Labour Council Women’s Committee: 6th Annual Women’s Day Lunch

  • Year created:

    1991

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Towards an Organization of Working Women

  • Year created:

    1970

  • Author(s):

    Jean Rands

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
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Unbreakable Links: International Women’s Day, 1993

  • Year created:

    1993

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Union Women Respond to the Changing World of Work (1997)

  • Year created:

    1997

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Unions Work for Women

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Waitresses’ Action Committee Letter

  • Year created:

    1977

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
We Accuse Radio Shack of Union Busting

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
What OSSTF Members Need to Know About Negotiating Child-Related Emergency Leave

  • Year created:

    --

  • Author(s):

    Shelagh Luka

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Women and Affirmative Action/Les femmes et l’action positive

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English and French
Women and Occupational Health Conference: Agenda

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Region:

    Nova Scotia

  • Language:

    English
Women and Unions: Bringing Women into the Union Movement – Flyer

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Region:

    Nova Scotia

  • Language:

    English
Women and Unions: Bringing Women into the Union Movement – Panel and Workshop Agenda

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Region:

    Nova Scotia

  • Language:

    English
Women Fighting INCO Solidarity Benefit

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women in crisis

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women in Teaching (Forum) – April 1981

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Author(s):

    Shelagh Luka

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women in Trades and Technology Conference – 1988 Program

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Women in Trades: National Conference of Women in Trades, Winnipeg

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Women on the Global Assembly Line (1985)

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Author(s):

    Judy Darcy, Tania Das Gupta, Amy Gottlieb, Susan Prentice , Maureen Simpkins, Christa Van Daele, Lynda Yanz

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Women Workers and the Recession: A Report from the Canadian Labour Congress

  • Year created:

    1993

  • Author(s):

    Social and Economic Policy Department, Canadian Labour Congress

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Women Working with Immigrant Women – Planning and Discussion Workshop Agenda

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women Working with Immigrant Women: Speech to Immigrant Women Conference

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women Working with Immigrant Women: Statement on Mental Health

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Women’s Forum Agenda – Ontario Federation of Labour Convention 1980

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Women’s Forum Agenda – Ontario Federation of Labour Convention 1988

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women’s Work

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women, Unions and Workplace Struggles

  • Year created:

    --

  • Author(s):

    Francis Gregory

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women’s Bureau Bulletin – Number XI – January 1964

  • Year created:

    1964

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Women’s Oppression: Working Class Solutions

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women’s Solidarity Day at Irwin Toys

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women’s Work: A Collection of Articles by Working Women

  • Year created:

    1972

  • Author(s):

    Pat Uhl, Elizabeth Dube, Helen Potrebenko

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Working Women Speak Out!

  • Year created:

    1973

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Working Women’s Alliance of London

  • Year created:

    1976

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English

Ephemera
Fleck Strike: Knitted Doll

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Region:

    Ontario
Library Workers make libraries work: Bookmark

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Region:

    Ontario

Films

Don’t Call Me Baby

  • Year created:

    1975

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Margot Trevelyan

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
Film Still from 'It’s Not Over Yet – Saskatchewan Working Women" of a newspaper article titled "Saskatchewan Working Women form new organization".
It’s Not Over Yet – Saskatchewan Working Women

  • Year created:

    2000andafter

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Susan Risk

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    Saskatchewan
Black and white still from the film "Maria" featuring Maria and her mother talking to a union organizer.
Maria

  • Year created:

    1977

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Allan King

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    Ontario
Still from the film "Moving Mountains" featuring two female miners holding shovels and walking in the snow.
Moving Mountains

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Laura Sky

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    British Columbia
Still featuring a blurry black and white archival image of nurses striking.
Nurses defy with illegal strike in 1988

  • Year created:

    2000andafter

  • Filmmaker(s):

    United Nurses of Alberta

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    Alberta
Still from the film "The Fleck Women" featuring a blurry black and white archival photograph of two Fleck strikers holding signs.
The Fleck Women

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Timothy Bongard, Kem Murch, Judy McGowan

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    Ontario
Still from the film "The Glass Ceiling" featuring one of the subjects, a young black woman, working as a receptionist.
The Glass Ceiling

  • Year created:

    1992

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Sophie Bissonnette

  • Language:

    English and French

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
Still from the film "The Right to Care" featuring a nurse and a doctor treating a patient on a hospital bed.
The Right to Care

  • Year created:

    1991

  • Filmmaker(s):

    Laura Sky

  • Language:

    English

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

Periodicals

Alliance

Alliance – Vol. 1, No. 2 – March/April 1988

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Publisher:

    Public Service Alliance of Canada

  • Author(s):

    Penny Bertrand, Alan Pryde, Nancy Mitchell

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English

Child Care Challenge

Child Care Challenge – Vol. 8, No. 5 – Spring 1991

  • Year created:

    1991

  • Publisher:

    Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care; Ontario Federation of Labour

  • Author(s):

    Romi Mainolfi, Martha Friendly, Janet Davis, Carol Christian, Barbara J. Burt

  • Language:

    English

Coalition for Fair Wages and Working Conditions for Homeworkers Newsletter

Coalition for Fair Wages and Working Conditions for Homeworkers Newsletter — May 1993 

  • Year created:

    1993

  • Publisher:

    Coalition for Fair Wages and Working Conditions for Homeworkers

  • Author(s):

    Shelly Gordon, Salome Loucas

  • Language:

    English

Feminist Perspectives

Feminist Perspectives – Challenging Unions: Feminist Process and Democracy in the Labour Movement – No. 8 – 1987

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Publisher:

    Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women

  • Author(s):

    Miriam Edelson

  • Language:

    English

Our Times

Our Times – Vol. 10, Issue 2 – March 1991

  • Year created:

    1991

  • Publisher:

    Our Times

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
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Our Times – Vol. 4, Issue 7 – September/October 1985

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Publisher:

    Our Times Publishing Ltd.

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Our Times – Vol. 5, Issue 2 – March 1986

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Publisher:

    Our Times Publishing Ltd.

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Our Times – Vol. 6, Issue 2 – March 1987

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Publisher:

    Our Times Publishing Ltd.

  • Author(s):

    Miriam Edelson

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Our Times – Vol. 7, Issue 2 – March/April 1988

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Publisher:

    Our Times

  • Author(s):

    Sue Colley, Lynn Lathrop, Mary Rowles, Maria Wallis, Beatrice J. Miller

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
Our Times – Vol. 8, Issue 2 – March 1989

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Publisher:

    Our Times Publishing Ltd.

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English

Saskatoon Women’s Liberation Newsletter and Prairie Women

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Prairie Woman (Saskatoon Women’s Liberation) – Vol. 2, Issue 8 – October/November 1978

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Publisher:

    Saskatoon Women’s Liberation

  • Region:

    Saskatchewan

  • Language:

    English

Sisterhood: Women for Unionism, Solidarity

Sisterhood – Vol. 17, No. 11 – February 1994

  • Year created:

    1994

  • Publisher:

    British Columbia Federation of Labour Women's Committee

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Sisterhood – Vol. 18, No. 10 – October 1996

  • Year created:

    1996

  • Publisher:

    British Columbian Federation of Labour

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Sisterhood – Vol. 18, No. 16 – November 1996

  • Year created:

    1996

  • Publisher:

    British Columbian Federation of Labour

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Sisterhood – Vol. 18, No. 9 – September 1996

  • Year created:

    1996

  • Publisher:

    British Columbian Federation of Labour

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Sisterhood – Vol. 19, No. 5 – May 1996

  • Year created:

    1996

  • Publisher:

    British Columbia Federation of Labour

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Sisterhood – Vol. 19, No. 6 – June 1996

  • Year created:

    1996

  • Publisher:

    British Columbian Federation of Labour

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Sisterhood – Vol. 19, No. 8 – August 1996

  • Year created:

    1996

  • Publisher:

    British Columbian Federation of Labour

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Sisterhood – Vol. 2, No. 5 – October 1978

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Publisher:

    British Columbia Federation of Labour Women's Committee

  • Author(s):

    Jane Hastings, Debby Ward

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Sisterhood – Vol. 20 , No. 1 – March 1998

  • Year created:

    1998

  • Publisher:

    British Columbian Federation of Labour

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Sisterhood – Vol. 21 , No. 3 – 1998

  • Year created:

    1998

  • Publisher:

    British Columbian Federation of Labour

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Sisterhood – Vol. 17, No. 5 – May 1994

  • Year created:

    1994

  • Publisher:

    British Columbia Federation of Labour Women's Committee

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English

The Grapevine – Newsletter of Organized Working Women (Ottawa)

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The Grapevine – Vol. 1, No. 1 – December 1987

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women (Ottawa Chapter)

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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The Grapevine – Vol. 1, No. 2 – February 1988

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women (Ottawa Chapter)

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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The Grapevine – Vol. 1, No. 5 – Summer 1988

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women - Ottawa Chapter

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
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The Grapevine – Vol. 2, No. 1 – January 1989

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women (Ottawa)

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English

Union Woman

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Union Woman – Vol. 1, Issue 1 – November 1977

  • Year created:

    1977

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women (Toronto Area)

  • Author(s):

    Tina Cartwright, Barbara Cameron, Valerie J. Packota, Evelyn Armstrong, Joy Craig, M. Spink, S.D. Seide, Maryka Omatsu

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 1, Issue 2 – January 1978

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women (Toronto Area)

  • Author(s):

    Marilyn Spink, Joy Craig, Deirdre Gallagher , Shelley Acheson, Betty Burcher, Lynn King, Evelyn Armstrong, Susan Seide, Maryka Omatsu

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 1, Issue 3 – March 1978

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women (Toronto Area)

  • Author(s):

    Joy Craig, Cathy Skinner, Linda Carson, Abby Hoffman, Marilyn Spink, Valerie J. Pakota, Susan Seide, Maryka Omatsu, Lois Bedard

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 1, Issue 4 – May 1978

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women (Toronto area)

  • Author(s):

    Deirdre Gallagher, Barbara Cameron, Phil Hargreaves, Marg Moores, Mary Ellen Marus, Marilyn Spink, Wendy Cuthbertson, Susan Seide, Vicki Newall

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 10, Issue 2 – Spring/Summer 1987

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women

  • Author(s):

    Mary E. Addison, Donna Johansen, Grace Hartman

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 10, Issue 3 – Fall 1987

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women

  • Author(s):

    Ruth Scher, Carole Coplea, Alice Kolisnyk, K.M., Dr. Ruth Weir, Kerry McCuaig, Deborah Bourque

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 2, Issue 1 – September 1978

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women (Toronto Area)

  • Author(s):

    Bonnie Alter, Pat Tait, Jennifer Penney, Irene Kuusela, Holly Kirkconnell, Margaret Smith, Evelyn Armstrong, Bonnie Benedik, Mary Morison, Deirdre Gallagher

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 2, Issue 2 – November 1978

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women (Toronto area)

  • Author(s):

    Deirdre Gallagher, Pat Tait, Heather MacFarlane, Tina Cartwright, Wendy Cuthbertson, Barbara Cameron, Marilyn Spink, Mary Cornish, Lynn King, Bonnie Alter, Holly Kirkconnell

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 2, Issue 3 – January 1979

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women (Toronto area)

  • Author(s):

    Tina Cartwright, Laurma Avens, Bonnie Alter, Laurel Ritchie, Wendy Cuthbertson, Catharine Skinner, Frances Scovil, Barbara Cameron, Jean Dirksen, Mary Ellen Marus, Maureen Reilly, Deirdre Gallagher

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 2, Issue 4 – March 1979

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women (Toronto area)

  • Author(s):

    Holly Kirkconnell, Tina Cartwright, Lindsey Cook, Ann Kennedy, Naomi Wall, Barbara Cameron, Jean Dirksen, Bonnie Alter

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 2, Issue 5 – May 1979

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women (Toronto area)

  • Author(s):

    Frances Scovil, Naomi Wall, Bonnie Alter, Barbara Cameron, Shelly Acheson, Margaret Smith, Holly Kirkconnell, Tina Cartwright, Jean Dirksen

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 2, Issue 6 – September 1979

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women (Toronto area)

  • Author(s):

    Margot Trevelyan, Joan Osborne, Marlene Maldaver, Bonnie Alter, Cliff Pilkey, Holly Kirkconnell, Maureen Reilly, Barbara Cameron

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 2, Issue 7 – November 1979

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women

  • Author(s):

    Joan Osborne, Tina Cartwright, Lois Bedard, Jean Dirksen, Kerry McCuaig

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 3, Issue 1- February 1980

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women (Toronto area)

  • Author(s):

    Cathi Carr, Ann Newman, Tina Cartwright, Barbara Cameron, Joan Osborne, Kay Macpherson

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 3, Issue 2 – May 1980

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women (Toronto area)

  • Author(s):

    Barbara Neyedley, Barbara Cameron, Frances Lankin, Cathi Carr, Marie Ociepka, Joan Osborne, Johanna B. Oosterveld, Diane Smith

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 3, Issue 3 – September 1980

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women (Toronto area)

  • Author(s):

    Joan Osborne, Holly Kirkconnell, Cathi Carr, Ruth Goldthorpe, Barbara Nedley, Susan Attenborough, Irene Hodgson, Paul Coast

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 4, Issue 1 – November 1980

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women (Toronto area)

  • Author(s):

    Joyce Rosenthal, Joan Osborne, Kathy Viner, Cathi Carr, Holly Kirkconnell, Barbara Linds, Lin Grist

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 4, Issue 2 – January/February 1981

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women

  • Author(s):

    Susan J. Ogurian, Susan Edgar, Joan Osborne, Debbie Field, Barbara Neyedly, Mildred Istona, Joyce Rosenthal, Pat Murphy, Rona Moreau, Phyllis Woolley

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English

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Union Woman – Vol. 4, Issue 3 – March/April 1981

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women

  • Author(s):

    Nancy Bayly, Lois Bedard, Rosemary Tate, Cathi Carr, Linda Torney, Phyllis Woolley, Joyce Rosenthal

  • Language:

    English

Union Woman

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Union Woman – Vol. 5, Issue 1 – November-December 1981

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women

  • Author(s):

    Sue Colley, Linda Torney, Barb Linds, Cathi Carr, Jo Saxby

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 5, Issue 2 – January/February 1982

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women

  • Author(s):

    Donna Rosenweig, Deborah Littman, Cathi Carr, Miriam Galdemez, Lois Bedard, Kerry McCuaig, Jo Saxby

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 5, Issue 3 – March/April 1982

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women

  • Author(s):

    Kerry McCuaig, Barbara Cameron, Janice McClelland, Lois Bédard, Cathi Carr, Agi Lukacs

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 5, Issue 4 – September/October 1982

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women

  • Author(s):

    Susan Giampietri, Holly Kirkconnell, Maria Luisa Rodriguez, Myra Novogrodsky, Lois Bedard, L. Clement

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 6, Issue 1 – November/December 1982

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women

  • Author(s):

    Susie Vallance, Cathi Carr, Norma Scarborough, Sue Craig, Barbara Lind, Jill Jones, Alexis Gordon, Pauline Duffet, Vivien Green

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 6, Issue 2 – January/February 1983

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women

  • Author(s):

    Laurell Ritchie, Peggy Nash, Pat Armstrong, Gail Posen, Cathi Carr, Irene Kuusela

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 6, Issue 3 – March/April 1983

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women

  • Author(s):

    Joyce Rosenthal, Barbara Linds, Cathi Carr, Kerry McCuaig, Jean-Claude Parrot, Mary Cornish

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 6, Issue 4 – September/October 1983

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women

  • Author(s):

    Marion Bryden, Norma Scarborough, Val Hunnius, Cathi Carr, Holly Kirkconnell, Joyce Rosenthal

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 6, Issue 5 – November/December 1983

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women

  • Author(s):

    Kerry McCuaig , Joyce Rosenthal, Barbara Cameron, Cathi Carr, Angela Browning, Jan Newson, Jo Saxby, Mr. Justice Smith, R. Justice Patrick Galligan

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 7, Issue 1 – January/February 1984

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women

  • Author(s):

    Cathi Carr, Sue Craig, Joyce Rosenthal, Kimberly Wilde, Darcie Beggs, Abby Pollonetsky, Jill Jones

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 7, Issue 2 – April/May 1984

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women

  • Author(s):

    Donna Johansen, Kerry McCuaig, Holly Kirkconnell, Carole Currie, Sheila McNeill, Dorothy MacKinnon, Lynda Giffen, Coral McIntee, Fern Valin, Valerie Hunnius

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 7, Issue 3 – September/October 1984

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women

  • Author(s):

    Cathi Carr, Wendy Iler, Lois Bedard, Sue Craig, Janice Newson, Jeff Rose

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 7, Issue 4 – November/December 1984

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women

  • Author(s):

    Shirley Ittas, Cathi Carr, Maureen Hawkins, Sue Craig, Password, Jill Jones, Kerry McCuaig, Mary Rowles, S. Stylianos

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 8, Issue 1 – January/March 1985

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women

  • Author(s):

    Holly Kirkconnell, Nancy Porter, Sue Craig, Cherie MacDonald, Stan Gray, A. Striker

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
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Union Woman – Vol. 9, Issue 1 – January/March 1987

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women

  • Author(s):

    Kerry McCuaig, Sandra Laycock, Pauline Roy, Pam Fitzgerald, Patricia McDermott, Alice Kolisynk

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English

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Union Woman – Vol. 4, Issue 4 – September/October 1981

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Publisher:

    Organized Working Women

  • Author(s):

    Joan Osborne, Cathi Carr, Agi Lukacs, Jane Stinson, Grace Hartman, Phyllis Woolley

  • Language:

    English

Wages for Housework Campaign Bulletin

Wages for Housework Campaign Bulletin – Vol. 3 Issue 1 – Summer/Fall 1978

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Publisher:

    Toronto Wages for Housework Committee

  • Author(s):

    Judith Ramirez, Frances Gregory, Ellen Agger, Betty Burcher, Mary Deacon, Liz Janzen, Dorothy Kidd, Heather Sterling

  • Language:

    English

Women’s Rights Bulletin – Ontario Federation of Labour

Women’s Rights Bulletin – April 1988

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Publisher:

    Ontario Federation of Labour

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women’s Rights Bulletin – April 1989

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Publisher:

    Ontario Federation of Labour

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women’s Rights Bulletin – January 1988

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Publisher:

    Ontario Federation of Labour

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    listing_language_english
Women’s Rights Bulletin – January 1989

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Publisher:

    Ontario Federation of Labour

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    listing_language_english
Women’s Rights Bulletin – June 1987

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Publisher:

    Ontario Federation of Labour

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    listing_language_english
Women’s Rights Bulletin – June 1988

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Publisher:

    Ontario Federation of Labour

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    listing_language_english
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Women’s Rights Bulletin – November 1980

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Publisher:

    Ontario Federation of Labour Women’s Committee

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    listing_language_english
Women’s Rights Bulletin – November 1985

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Publisher:

    Ontario Federation of Labour

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    listing_language_english
Women’s Rights Bulletin – November 1988

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Publisher:

    Ontario Federation of Labour

  • Author(s):

    Judy Rebick

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women’s Rights Bulletin – December 1996

  • Year created:

    1996

  • Publisher:

    Ontario Federation of Labour

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women’s Rights Bulletin – January 1989

  • Year created:

    1989

  • Publisher:

    Ontario Federation of Labour Women's Committee

  • Language:

    English
Women’s Rights Bulletin – June 1987

  • Year created:

    1987

  • Publisher:

    Ontario Federation of Labour Women's Committee

  • Language:

    English
Women’s Rights Bulletin – June 1988

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Publisher:

    Ontario Federation of Labour Women’s Committee

  • Language:

    English
Women’s Rights Bulletin – June 1998

  • Year created:

    1998

  • Publisher:

    Ontario Federation of Labour

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Women’s Rights Bulletin – November 1980

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Publisher:

    Ontario Federation of Labour Women’s Committee

  • Author(s):

    Shelley Acheson

  • Language:

    English
Women’s Rights Bulletin – November 1985

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Publisher:

    Ontario Federation of Labour Women’s Committee

  • Language:

    English
Women’s Rights Bulletin – November 1988

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Publisher:

    Ontario Federation of Labour Women’s Committee

  • Language:

    English
Women’s Rights Bulletin – October 1996

  • Year created:

    1996

  • Publisher:

    Ontario Federation of Labour

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English

Working Woman

Working Woman – April 1980

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Publisher:

    Saskatchewan Working Women

  • Region:

    Saskatchewan

  • Language:

    English
Working Woman – Vol. 1, Issue 1 – April/May 1979

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Publisher:

    Saskatchewan Working Women

  • Region:

    Saskatchewan

  • Language:

    English

Photos

Arlene Mantle participates in the solidarity rally organized to support CIBC VISA workers on strike in 1986. Photograph by Amy Gottlieb.
Arlene Mantle at Solidarity Rally for VISA Strikers

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Photographer:

    Amy Gottlieb

  • Region:

    Ontario
The Canadian Air Line Employees Association (CALEA) on strike against Air Canada in 1985. Shortly after, CALEA merged with the Canadian Auto Workers.
CALEA Strike

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
This is a photo of Canadian Auto Workers activist and feminist Cheryl Kryzaniwsky at a meeting of the Canadian Council in 1986.
Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) Activist Cheryl Kryzaniwsky

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
Long time activist and early child care advocate with the Canadian Auto Workers, Carol Phillips served as the Bargaining Committee Chair and Chair of CAW Local 673, Dehavilland Aircraft. Later she was Director of Education Development and Director of International Development, before becoming Assistant to the President. Carol was also Head of the Canadian Labour Congress Women's Bureau and Executive Assistant to the President of the Canada Labour Congress.This photo from 1980 is from the UNIFOR archives and is printed with permission.
Canadian Auto Workers Activist Carol Phillips

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
Women of the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) participate in the 1996 "Women's March Against Poverty - For Bread and Roses, For Jobs and Justice." The cross-country action was organized by the Canadian Labour Congress and the National Action Committee on the Status of Women.
Canadian Auto Workers Join Women’s March Against Poverty

  • Year created:

    1996

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
Sunera Thobani, President of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, is a keynote speaker at the 1994 Canadian Auto Workers Women's Conference.
Canadian Auto Workers Women’s Conference 1993

  • Year created:

    1993

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
This 1996 photo is from the June 1st opening festivities for the CAW Oshawa Child Care Facilities. The first child enrolled is shown front/centre. Also taking part are child care centre workers and, in the back row (l to r) : unidentified man; Laurel Rothman, director of CAW childcare services; Jim Cameron of General Motors; Peggy Nash, assistant to CAW President; unidentifed woman; Dave Broadbent, CAW Local 222 secretary-treasurer; and Nancy Diamond, Oshawa Mayor. The photo is from the CAW Archives.
CAW Oshawa Child Care Facility Opens

  • Year created:

    1996

  • Photographer:

    R. Raby

  • Region:

    Ontario
Action Daycare leader Pat Schultz speaks to 1981 United Auto Workers in Canada Women's Conference at Port Elgin.
Child care activist Pat Schultz speaks at UAW Women’s Conference

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
This occasion for this photo of Deirdre Gallagher and Shelley Acheson is unknown, but was probably taken at an early OFL Women's Committee meeting. Deirdre has a long-time history of labour and feminist activism dating from the late 1960s. In the late 1970s she became an Executive member and staff for Organized Working Women. Later she was a founding member of the OFL Women's Committee, and staff for Steelworkers and Public Service Alliance of Canada. Shelley was the OFL Human Rights staff and liaison to the OFL Women's Committee, as well as an activist and Executive member of Organized Working Women.
Deirdre Gallagher & Shelley Acheson (1980)

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Region:

    Ontario
This photo was taken on the picket line outside Eaton's during the 1984-85 strike. The predominantly female local of Retail Wholesale Department Store Union (RWDSU) went on strike to win a first contract.
Eaton’s Strike

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Region:

    Ontario
In March 1978, the women workers at Fleck Manufacturing went on strike for a first contract. Led by women, the bitter struggle at this small auto-wiring plant in Centralia, Ontario helped forge a strong relationship between organized labour and the women’s movement. This photo shows the Fleck women leading the 1979 International Women’s Day Parade in Toronto. Photograph by Frank Rooney.
Fleck Strikers Lead 1979 International Women’s Day March

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Photographer:

    Frank Rooney

  • Region:

    Ontario
The Canadian Air Line Flight Attendants Association went on strike against Air Canada in 1986. The union was certified in 1948.
Flight Attendants Strike at Air Canada

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Photographer:

    Amy Gottlieb

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
International Ladies’ Garment Union

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario
This is an undated photo of union women at the Toronto International Women's Day March. Placards feature OPSEU and the Canadian Labour Congress calls for an End to Sexual Harassment and Equal Pay.
International Women’s Day (Toronto) – Union Women

  • Year created:

    --

  • Photographer:

    Diana Meredith

  • Region:

    Ontario
Shelley Acheson, Ontario Federation of Labour Human Rights Director, speaks at an International Women's Day press conference in March 1978. Carolyn Egan is seated to Shelley's left.
International Women’s Day 1978 (Toronto) – Press Conference

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Photographer:

    Frank Rooney

  • Region:

    Ontario
A woman at 1983 International Women's Day March in Toronto carries Bread and Roses sign.
International Women’s Day 1983 (Toronto) – Bread and Roses

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Photographer:

    Judy Blankenship

  • Region:

    Ontario
Banners of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 79 are seen at the 1983 International Women's Day March in Toronto.
International Women’s Day 1983 (Toronto) – Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 79

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Photographer:

    Judy Blankenship

  • Region:

    Ontario
Participants in 1983 International Women's Day March in Toronto call for action and solidarity with Polish workers and the people of El Salvador and Nicaragua.
International Women’s Day 1983 (Toronto) – International Solidarity

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Photographer:

    Judy Blankenship

  • Region:

    Ontario
Toronto International Women's Day March in 1983 protests Mini-Skools.
International Women’s Day 1983 (Toronto) – Mini-Skools Pays Mini-Wages

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Photographer:

    Diana Meredith

  • Region:

    Ontario
United Steelworkers Toronto Area Council march at the International Women's Day 1983 March in Toronto. Banners of other unions can also be seen in the background.
International Women’s Day 1983 (Toronto) – United Steelworkers Toronto Area Council

  • Year created:

    1983

  • Photographer:

    Judy Blankenship

  • Region:

    Ontario
Interview with Léa Roback: 3rd International Feminist Book Fair (1988)

  • Year created:

    1988

  • Photographer:

    Judith Lermer Crawley

  • Region:

    Quebec
Feminist and union activist Deirdre Gallagher at Boycott Irwin Toy solidarity march in 1981. Women represented about two-thirds of the 114 United Steelworkers of America members at the Etobicoke factory where workers were on strike for a first contract.
Irwin Toy Solidarity Action (Toronto)

  • Year created:

    1980

  • Region:

    Ontario
Judy Rebick, President of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, speaks at a Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) Conference.
Judy Rebick Speaking at CAW Conference

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
Labour Day Toronto – ILGWU Banner

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario
Labour Day Toronto – UNITE Banner – 1995

  • Year created:

    1995

  • Region:

    Ontario
Labour Day Toronto – UNITE Banner – 1996

  • Year created:

    1996

  • Region:

    Ontario
Labour Day Toronto – UNITE Truck – 1995

  • Year created:

    1995

  • Region:

    Ontario
Canadian Labour Congress Vice-President Shirley Carr and United Auto Workers leader Bob White join a solidarity demonstration in September 1985 in support of striking workers at CIBC VISA.
Labour Solidarity for VISA Strikers

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Region:

    Ontario
The union leadership of the Metro Library Strike organized fun days on the picket lines as a creative way to attract attention, win support and build pressure on the politicians responsible for running the library. Here members of CUPE Local 1582 watch the poets and singers on the arts and letters solidarity picket, acknowledging the work of the Music and Fine Arts departments. Front row left to right: M. Gordon, Susan Willis, Gerry Haley. Back row Bob Adams, Susan Reed
Metro Library Strike – Arts and Music Solidarity Picket Day

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Photographer:

    Rob Laycock

  • Region:

    Ontario
Metro Toronto Library workers collected names from supportive members of the public while on the picket line in 1984. Staff from the bindery department organized and bound these petitions into The Big Book of Public Support to present to Metro Council.
Metro Library Strike – Big Book of Public Support

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Photographer:

    Rob Laycock
This is a photo of a rally at Toronto City Hall held by CUPE library workers who were on strike at the Metro Toronto Reference Library in 1984. Judy Darcy, head of the Strike Committee, is holding the megaphone.
Metro Library Strike – Judy Darcy Speaks at City Hall Rally

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Photographer:

    Rob Laycock

  • Region:

    Ontario
Shirley Lowe, a staff member of the Languages Department, holdes picket sign. Staff in this department provided services in over 40 languages, and many brought their own signs to the picket line.
Metro Library Strike – Picket Signs in Many Languages

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Photographer:

    Rob Laycock

  • Region:

    Ontario
Sheila Mackay, CUPE 1582 member of the bargaining committee during the 1984 Metro Library Strike wore this sign most days on the picket line during the 6th and 7th months of her pregnancy. The union was trying to ensure that women returning from maternity leave were guaranteed their own jobs back. They were also looking for adoption leave accessible to both partners, which they won and paid maternity leave, which they did not.
Metro Library Strike – Picketer Protests Punishment of Pregnant Workers

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Photographer:

    Rob Laycock

  • Region:

    Ontario
Sue Genge, President CUPE 1582 and Carlita Dimaano, member of the Strike Committee celebrating the ratification of the collective agreement reached with the Metro Toronto Reference Library after two months on strike.
Metro Library Strike – Post Ratification Celebration

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Photographer:

    Rob Laycock

  • Region:

    Ontario
Like most library picketers during the Metro Library Strike in 1984, CUPE Local 1582 Vice-President Linda Cornwell was seldom without a book.
Metro Library Strike – Reading on the Picket Line

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Photographer:

    Rob Laycock

  • Region:

    Ontario
Members of the three bargaining committees rallied the Metro Toronto Library workers on the morning of their return to work after the successful conclusion of their two-month strike. (November 26, 1984). From the left: Cameron Holyer and Peggy Keefe (CUPE 1806 bargaining committee), Anne Richmond (CUPE 1582 bargaining committee), Mindy Ginsler (President CUPE 1806), Sue Genge (President CUPE 1582), Ken Morton (President CUPE 2758), Sheila Mackay (CUPE 1582 bargaining committee), Alma Hyslop (CUPE 1806 bargaining committee).
Metro Library Strike – Return to Work Rally

  • Year created:

    1984

  • Photographer:

    Rob Laycock

  • Region:

    Ontario
Executive Member Joyce Rosenthal joins Women's Solidarity Action organized for Fleck women striking for first contract.
Organized Working Women – Executive Member Joyce Rosenthal on Fleck Picket Line

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Photographer:

    Holly Kirkconnell

  • Region:

    Ontario
Organized Working Women was part of building the Women's Solidarity Pickets at Fleck in 1978. Buses of women from Toronto joined the women strikers who had signed with U.A.W. and were seeking a first contract.
Organized Working Women At 1978 Women’s Solidarity Action for Fleck Strikers

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Photographer:

    Holly Kirkconnell

  • Region:

    Ontario
This 1978 photo of the Newspaper Committee for Union Woman shows members (l to r) Barbara Cameron, Tina Cartwright, Lynn Spink, and Susan Selde. Val Pakota, Mary Ellen Marus, and Joy Craig were absent when the photo was taken.
Organized Working Women Newspaper Committee

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Region:

    Ontario
Organized Working Women played a significant role in organizing strong labour and feminist solidarity for the striking women at Fleck.
Organized Working Women on Fleck Picket Line

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Photographer:

    Holly Kirkconnell

  • Region:

    Ontario
President Sue Craig leads a workshop organized by OWW.
Organized Working Women President Sue Craig

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario
Deirdre Gallagher of Organized Working Women speaks to reporter at Fleck Solidarity Action.
Organized Working Women Solidarity Action for Fleck Strikers

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Photographer:

    Margaret McPhail

  • Region:

    Ontario
Organized Working Women builds women's support picket for Fleck strikers.
Organized Working Women Support Fleck Women Strikers

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Photographer:

    Holly Kirkconnell

  • Region:

    Ontario
This is an undated early photo of Peggy Nash as an activist and feminist with the Canadian Auto Workers. Nash was a leader during the Canadian Air Line Employees Association (CALEA) strike against Air Canada in 1985. Shortly after, CALEA merged with the Canadian Auto Workers. Nash became a member of the union’s leadership and later assumed chief responsibility for negotiating with such companies as Ford of Canada.
Peggy Nash

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
This is an undated photo of Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) activist and feminist, Peggy Nash. Peggy is sitting in front of the powerful CAW Women Unite Sisterhood Solidarity painting.
Peggy Nash & CAW Women Unite

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
This photo of Peggy Nash, feminist and labour activist, was taken at a Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) Council meeting during the time of the free trade negotiations between Canada and the United States.
Peggy Nash – Canadian Auto Workers Council

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
This is one of two undated photos of NDP women and others at a rally in Toronto about Bill C-36 and ending employment discrimination against women.
Rally on Bill C-36 and Discrimination Against Women

  • Year created:

    --

  • Photographer:

    Solveig Ryall

  • Region:

    Ontario
This is an undated photo of New Democratic Party women rallying outside Queen's Park over Bill C-36 and discrimination against women.
Rally on Bill C-36 and Discrimination Against Women

  • Year created:

    --

  • Photographer:

    Solveig Ryall

  • Region:

    Ontario
This photo was taken in 1980 of UAW activist Roxie Baker (right) with Karen Malcho of Local 1325. Roxie Baker was president of the Canadian Auto Workers Local 1325 for 23 years. In that time she led the way for protections of particular significance to women including protections from sexual harassment. She also raised issues of equal pay and maternity and adoption leave benefits. Roxie was a longstanding member of the UAW, later CAW, Women's Committee.
Roxie Baker: CAW Activist

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
Long time labour activist, Shirley Carr speaks to the Canadian Labour Congress. Carr became the first women to be elected President of the CLC in 1986.
Shirley Carr – President, Canadian Labour Congress

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
Women organized solidarity actions in support of the members of United Bank Workers on strike at CIBC VISA.
Solidarity Rally for CIBC VISA Strike

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Photographer:

    Amy Gottlieb

  • Region:

    Ontario
In 1986, members of the Union of Bank Employees went on strike at the CIBC VISA offices. This photo was taken at a solidarity rally.
Strikers at Rally for CIBC VISA Workers

  • Year created:

    1986

  • Photographer:

    Amy Gottlieb

  • Region:

    Ontario
This photo of young supporters was taken at an 1981 Women' Solidarity Day organized by the Ontario Federation of Labour Women's Committee in support of the strikers at Irwin Toy in Toronto.
Support Rally for Strikers at Irwin Toy (1981)

  • Year created:

    1981

  • Region:

    Ontario
The Nova Scotia Federation of Labour Women's Committee banner was filled with dozens of signatures alongside the slogan "Facing the Challenges". It was part of The Banner Project which asked women's groups across Canada to produce a protest banner that would become part of a huge banner in Ottawa. The goal was to show the strength and solidarity of women during the Third Commonwealth meeting of Ministers Responsible for Women’s Affairs in October 1990.
The Banner Project (1990): Nova Scotia Federation of Labour Women’s Committee

  • Year created:

    1990

  • Photographer:

    Amy Gottlieb

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
The Red Berets at the Feminist Working Class History Conference at University of Toronto - October 1, 2005
The Red Berets – Feminist Working Class History Conference (University of Toronto) – October 1, 2005

  • Year created:

    2000andafter

  • Photographer:

    Helena Wehrstein

  • Region:

    Ontario
The Red Berets came together to perform at the Labour History Conference in Hamilton on May 26, 2002.
The Red Berets at Hamilton Labour History Conference

  • Year created:

    2000andafter

  • Region:

    Ontario
Debbie Field (left) was one of five women who fought discrimination as part of the “Women Back into Stelco” Committee. In 1978-79, the ad hoc Women Back Into Stelco Committee, supported by United Steelworkers Local 1005, launched a campaign to force Stelco management to hire women for the well-paying production jobs at the Hilton works in Hamilton Ontario.
Women Back into Stelco Campaign: Debbie Field

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Region:

    Ontario
Peggy McComb, Marlene Gow, and Sandy Dennis were among the first Women of Steel activists and facilitators.
Women of Steel Activists

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)
This 1978 photo of striking workers at Puretex Knitting was part of the Organized Working Women Archives. OWW held solidarity pickets and actions in support of these striking women seeking better working conditions and pay.
Women Strikers at Puretex Knitting

  • Year created:

    1978

  • Region:

    Ontario

Posters
A New Eaton’s Tradition: Dignity and Rights for Working Women

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Region:

    National (all of Canada)

  • Language:

    English
A Vision in the Darkness

  • Year created:

    1991

  • Region:

    Ontario, Quebec

  • Language:

    English and French
Poster for the book An Account to Settle, published in 1979 by Press Gang Publishers in Vancouver. It is the story of the United Bank Workers of SORWUC (Service, Office, and Retail Workers Union of Canada) and their unionizing drive.
An Account to Settle: The Story of the United Bank Workers (SORWUC)

  • Year created:

    1979

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Conviction: International Women’s Day, March 8 – B.C. Government Employees’ Union

  • Year created:

    1982

  • Region:

    British Columbia

  • Language:

    English
Eaton’s Boycott – May Extravanganza

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
This 18" x 24" poster was designed and illustrated by Joss Mclennan for the May 6th Extravaganza in support of the Eaton's Boycott and striking workers. It is reproduced here with permission.
Eaton’s Boycott and May 6th Extravaganza Poster

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Visual Artist:

    Joss Maclennan

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
International Women’s Day 1991 – Sudbury

  • Year created:

    1991

  • Visual Artist:

    Brenda Furhman

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Poster for the premiere of the 1985 videotape of "No Small Change - The Story of the Eaton's Strike" presented by Emma Productions. The videotape is by Ruth Bishop, Marusia Bociurkiw, and Harriet Hum. Poster photo credit: Francine Dick.
No Small Change – The Story of the Eaton’s Strike

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Visual Artist:

    Francine Dick, Pat Jeffries

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
This evocative poster was created by Joe Rosenthal to mark Organized Women's 10th Anniversary.
Organized Working Women 10th Anniversary Poster

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Visual Artist:

    Joe Rosenthal

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
This powerful poster was created by Barbara Klunder in solidarity with striking workers at Eaton's seeking a first contract. It is reproduced here with permission.
Solidarity Poster for Eaton’s Strike

  • Year created:

    1985

  • Visual Artist:

    Barbara Klunder

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
Take Back the Night (Sudbury)

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English
The solidarity benefit for striking INCO workers was sponsored by United Steelworkers Local 6500, Organizing Working Women, International Women's Day Committee, Ontario Federation of Labour, and the NDP Women's Committee. Speakers were Cathy Duhaime, an Inco striker; Joan Kuyek, Women Helping Women; and Linda Obansawin, Wives' Strike Support Committee.
Women Fighting INCO Solidarity Benefit

  • Year created:

    --

  • Region:

    Ontario

  • Language:

    English