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...
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...
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...
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...
Vivian McCaffrey began her career as the Government Relations staff member for the Ontario Public School Teachers’ Federation (OPSTF), then men elementary teachers’ union, in 1981. She became a staff member of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) at...
