Rear-View Mirror

Title: Green Jobs, Not Pink Slips The Green Work Alliance was formed around the closing of the Caterpillar Plant in Toronto to demand it be converted to green production. The Alliance involved environmentalists, unionists (namely from the CAW that represented plant workers) and artists. Creator: Carole Condé + Karl Beveridge Publisher: Green Work Alliance Date: 1992-93 Format: Poster

Title: Mayworks Poster 1987 Official poster for the second Mayworks festival . Creator: Barbara Klunder Date: 1987 Format: Poster

Title: Picasso was a Union Man Poster for Independent Artists Union (IAU) symposium. The IAU was organized to obtain a living wage for artists. The argument, in part, was that artists were dependent contractors to government arts councils. (A model was the living grants system that existed in Holland at the time.) Creator: Brian Gee Date: 1986 Format: Poster

Title: May Day Meeting Poster for May Day 1981. Creator: Mike Constable Date: 1981 Format: Poster

Title: Partisan Puppets Show of Partisan puppets. Wearing the screw is editorial cartoonist Ted Jackman. He was fired by the Globe & Mail. He carved the puppet heads on Ontario Premier Bill Davis and Reagan (upper right). Creator: Unknown Date: 1981 Format: Poster

Title: A Time to Rise Film about South Asian farm workers union in B.C. by Anand Patwardhan and Jim Monro. Creator: Unknown Date: 1980  

Title: We Don't Shop at Eaton's Poster for a concert in support of Eaton's Boycott. Creator: Joss MacLennan Date: 1980s Format: Poster

Title: Union organizing at the AGO Poster in support of OPSEU's successful organizing drive at the AGO. The first King Tut exhibition was at the AGO. Creator: Carole Conde & Karl Beveridge Date: 1979 Format: Collage poster

Title: Canadian Farmworkers Union Poster in support of the Canadian Farmworkers Union (CFU, 1978 to 1987) organizing drive in Southern Ontario depicting tobacco pickers, a major crop at the time centered around Delhi, Ontario. Creator: Carole Condé + Karl Beveridge Date: 1979 Format: Offset Poster  

Title: What Ever Happened To Price Controls? "What Ever Happened To Price Controls?" banner at Labour Day 1977 on Spadina Ave. Creator: Mike Emre (photographer) Date: 1977 Format: Photo

Title: Fur Workers Union Toronto meatcutters participating in Canada-wide General Strike October 26, 1976. Photo: Mike Emre Date: 1976 Format: Photograph

Title: Queen's Park General Strike Oct 26, 1976 (3) Trudeau passed wage and price controls. He set up the Anti-Inflation Board (A.I.B.). Workers wages took the hit. Partisan Gallery did an A.I. Bee skit. The bee given the choice between honey or money would go for the cash and get swatted. Creator: Mike Emre (photographer) Date: 1976 Format: Photo  

Title: Queen's Park General Strike Oct 26, 1976 (2) Mike Constable tempting the A.I.Bee with a big dollar on a string. Creator: Mike Emre (photographer) Date: 1976 Format: Photo  

Title: Queen's Park General Strike Oct 26, 1976 (1) Canada-wide General Strike (October 26, 1976). Demonstration at Queen's Park in front of the Ontario legislature. More information at CLC , WikiPedia . Creator: Mike Emre (photographer) Date: 1976 Format: Photo