Portuguese Canadian Workers’ Project

VIDEO – Portuguese Canadian Workers’ Project by Gilberto Fernandes

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Thanks to Ontario Provincial Council of Machinists (OPCM) for joining us as members for 2018 #solidarity #canlab

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The Allied Printers copied sexism and sexual exploitation from the world around them https://t.co/mYpTNmproM

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RT @calix: The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters - a Black union - finally was allowed to join the #LabourDay parade in 1956 https://t.co…

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The first #MayDay in Canada was in Montreal 1906. Toronto started in 1920s by the #CommunistParty #Socialists welc… https://t.co/0c1O2C0WcD

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One of the lowest points in #LabourDay was letting companies have floats. This one was Eaton's, which was the most… https://t.co/diDFaqke6x

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The beginning of the #colonization of #LabourDay - jetting workers to stay away and take part in the capitalist sys… https://t.co/ffveLnDJJR

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Glen Richards is always very assiduous in recording all @ToWorkers presentations. https://t.co/G3aB0swONJ

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Allegorical Floats - floats showing workers performing their craft - aren't used anymore in #LabourDay https://t.co/jnWE2cdZKD

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Labour Day paraphernalia was some of the earliest worker art but few collected it. So, very little preserved for us… https://t.co/pO4FlwfPtS

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