Feb 14, 2023 | Oral History Project, Video
John Cartwright: Interview #1 (Feb 14, 2023) John Cartwright: Interview #2 (March 23,...
Jan 10, 2023 | Oral History Project, Video
Bill Howes grew up in Toronto and Sudbury, and began working at Northern Electric (later Northern Telecom) at age 19 in the early 1960s. He began his union activism there, in the United Auto Workers. In the early 1970s he was an organizer with the Canadian Labour...
Dec 31, 2022 | Oral History Project, Video
Bev Johnson: Interview #1 Bev Johnson: Interview #2 Bev Johnson, an Ontario Public Service Employees Union staff member from 1990 to 2006, discusses her long history of activism on human rights and employment equity. Born in Jamaica, she came to Canada in 1959 as...
Dec 29, 2022 | Oral History Project, Video
Oct 20, 2022 | Oral History Project, Video
Craig Heron, a leading labour and working class historian – and president of the Toronto Workers’ History Project – reflects on the change in the academic approach to labour history from focus on institutions to a more multidisciplinary style. Heron discusses the...
May 31, 2022 | Oral History Project, Video
For six years, Martin Long was president of the Toronto Teachers’ Federation, an early amalgamation of teachers from the FWTAO and the OPSTF. He discusses the 1987 strike over preparation time, the Social Contract, and the fight against the Harris...
