Solidarity and organizing by labor in Canada

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Maggie's Annual Report 1993/94
Maggie's, a self-help movement of sex workers, incorporated since 1991 in Toronto.
The GAP: brutality behind hip facade
By Terry Kelly, 14 October 1995. In June, 1995, ILGWU and ACTWU merged into UNITE, and it here supports manquiladora workers by picketing GAP stores.
Cross-border labour fight reaches Supreme Court. Mandatory union membership put to test
By Janice Tibbetts, The Ottawa Citizen, 21 March 2000. Owner of a concrete cutting company challenges 29-year old labor law that requires workers to belong to a union. Issue has sparked a political battle between Ontario and Quebec, where Ontario workers want to work across the river in Quebec, where labor is protected.