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Timeline of labour in Greater Sudbury

Timeline of labour in Greater Sudbury

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The following is a timeline of the history of labour organizations in communities in and around Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Listings for incorporated townships which were later amalgamated with the City of Sudbury are noted separately.

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1800s

  • 1896 - First recorded strike in Sudbury, when workers building its new waterworks system struck for higher wages.[1]

1900s

1900s

1910s

  • 1911
  • 1912 - 5 unions in total, with 2 reporting 59 members combined.[3]: 136 
  • 1913
  • 1914
    • Copper Cliff
      • December: The socialist Peoples' Society takes over the Finland Hall at 353 Temperance Street. Within months, the hall would be destroyed by a fire which was rumoured to be deliberate.[5]
    • Sudbury (306 members reported by 3 out of 5)[6]: 214 
      • Carpenters and Joiners local listed as No. 2635.[6]: 162 
  • 1915
  • 1916
    • Sudbury
      • Bricklayers' Local 31 reports 15 members and is the only chartered local in the city that year.[8]: 221 
      • International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers (Mine-Mill) Local No. 183 dissolved after inactivity. This is the same Local 183; the Western Federation of Miners had renamed itself.[8]: 221 
      • Carpenters and Joiners Local No. 2635 dissolved.[8]: 224 
      • Restaurant and Bartenders' Local No. 237 dissolved.[8]: 224 
  • 1919
    • Sudbury Trades and Labour Council comes into existence.[9]: 158  It represented eighteen local unions with a combined membership of 800.[9]: 276 
    • Mine-Mill Local 116 forms in Coniston, but disappears by 1920.[10]

1920s

1930s

  • 1930
    • Capreol (402 members reported by 8 out of 10 unions)[21]: 219 
    • Sudbury (150 members reported by 5 out of 12 unions)[21]: 219 
      • Sudbury Trades and Labour Council is re-founded with dual American Federation of Labor and Canadian Trades and Labour Congress charters.[21]: 77, 79  It represents 8 of the 12 local unions then in existence.[21]: 215 
      • Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers' International Union Local No. 28 is chartered.[21]: 120, 229 
      • International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local No. 473 is chartered.[21]: 120, 229 
      • Federated Association of Letter Carriers Local No. 61 is chartered.[21]: 229 
      • Branch of Lumber and Agricultural Workers' Industrial Union of Canada is recorded.[21]: 120 
      • Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employees Local No. 248 is recorded alongside Local 136.[21]: 120 
      • Branch of Mine Workers' Industrial Union (Workers' Unity League) is recorded.[21]: 163 
      • Communist Party of Canada sponsors mayor and alderman candidates for Sudbury municipal elections, receiving 69 and 56 votes respectively.[21]: 180 
      • May Day parade is broken up by police, who arrest eighteen participants, including Amos Hill. A demonstration is made outside the police station, with the fire hose used on the protestors and more arrests made. After being convicted in local courts, the convictions are overruled on appeal, with fines of $25 plus costs being upheld.[21]: 182, 183 
      • Lumber Workers' Industrial Union No. 120 (IWW) branch is dissolved.[21]: 231 
      • Amos T. Hill runs under Communist Party of Canada endorsement for Nipissing (which at the time included Sudbury) in the 1930 federal election, receiving 584 votes and coming in third and last place.[22]: 168 
    • Lumber and Agricultural Workers' Industrial Union branches founded in Sudbury, Turbine and Worthington, the latter with 41 members.[21]: 207, 219, 229 
  • 1931
    • Capreol (410 members reported by 8 out of 9 unions)[22]: 240 
    • Sudbury (164 members reported by 9 out of 10 unions)[22]: 241 
      • National headquarters of the Lumber and Agricultural Workers' Industrial Union located at 35 Lorne Street.[22]: 42 
      • May Day meeting at Bell Park occurs, with no arrests or disruption.[22]: 198 
  • 1935 - Joseph Levert and Amos T. Hill run as Co-operative Commonwealth and Communist Party of Canada candidates for Nipissing in the 1935 federal election, receiving 2,236 and 931 votes respectively and coming in third and fifth place.
  • 1936
    • An organizer for Mine-Mill, George W. "Scotty" Anderson, comes to Sudbury.[10]
    • March: Mine-Mill Local 239 is chartered. By May, it has 150 members.[10]

1940s

1950s

  • 1950
    • Mine-Mill's jurisdiction is granted to the United Steelworkers, which begins raiding Mine-Mill locals throughout North America, including Sudbury.[10]
    • Mine-Mill Local 902 has twenty-four contracts by the end of the year (seventeen with hotels) and includes grocery chain stores and taxicab drivers.[10]
  • 1951 - Mike Solski becomes president of Mine-Mill Local 598, replacing Nels Thibault who had been promoted to regional director of District 8 (Canada) for the union.[10]
  • 1953 - Willard H. Evoy (Co-operative Commonwealth) receives 3,514 votes running for the Sudbury riding in the 1953 federal election, coming in third place with 16.49% of the vote.
  • 1956
    • Mine-Mill holds its Canadian convention in Sudbury, which hosted the first concert performed by Paul Robeson outside of the United States after his travel ban.
    • Mine-Mill Local 902 holds fifty contracts in the Sudbury area.[10]
    • May: James Kidd is expelled for life from Mine-Mill Local 598 due to his intentional efforts to sabotage the union; by then, Kidd had become a full-time staff members with the United Steelworkers.[10]
  • 1958 - First major mine workers' strike in Sudbury.

1960s

  • 1961 - Riot occurs at a Mine-Mill meeting at the Sudbury Arena on September 21 over a discussion of whether or not the local should affiliate with the United Steelworkers.
  • 1965 - Sudbury Steelworkers Hall is opened on November 25.
  • 1966 - Inco strike which was smaller than the one in 1958.[23]
  • 1967 - National Mine-Mill organization merges with the United Steelworkers, but Local 598 stays independent as a rump local.[1]
  • 1969 - Inco strike which was smaller than the one in 1958.[23]

1970s

  • 1975 - Inco strike.[23]
  • 1978 - Inco strike of 1978-79 begins on September 15. 11,700 workers participated in the strike, which was organized by USW Local 6500 and which became known as one of the most significant labour disputes in Canadian history.[24]
  • 1979 - Inco strike of 1978-79 ends on June 7.

1980s

  • 1980 - Teachers with the Sudbury Public School Board go on strike from January to March.[25]
  • 1982 - Inco strike.[23]

1990s

  • 1993 - Mine-Mill Local 598 affiliates with the Canadian Auto Workers, having been the last surviving Mine-Mill local for almost 30 years.

2000s

2000s

  • 2000 - Mine-Mill/CAW Local 598 members at Falconbridge Ltd. go on strike for six and a half months.[26]
  • 2004 - Mine-Mill/CAW Local 598 strikes at Falconbridge again, this time for three weeks.[26] The strike was largely focused on Falconbridge's use of contractors, especially in newly opened mines.[27]
  • 2007 - 112 workers at eight Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) branches in the Sudbury area go on strike, the first multi-branch banking strike in Canadian history. The strike continues for one month from June to July, when the workers vote by a majority of 56 percent to accept the contract offered by TD. The contract provisions include an hourly pay raise of 35 cents as well as improved severance protection.[28]
  • 2008
    • January to October: Workers at local Sudbury branches of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) go on strike under United Steelworkers representation. After nine months, the workers win an immediate 4.5 percent wage increase, as well as a 3 percent wage increase built into an eighteen-month contract.[29]
    • August: Full-time and part-time faculty at the University of Sudbury engage in a nine-day strike after the university administration attempted to negotiate individual contracts with faculty members instead of renewing their collective agreement.[30][31]
    • September 19: Historic Sudbury Steelworkers Hall is destroyed by arson.[32]
    • December: USW Local 2020 members at Sudbury Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD) branches vote to decertify from their union one year after a strike.[33]
  • 2009 - Strike at Vale by members of USW Local 6500 begins on July 13.

2010s

See also

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