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Union organizer of the Toronto local of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union Wanda Tidd speaking with women workers on Spadina Avenue in Toronto, in August 1962.

Peggy Nash and Julie White are the authors of the upcoming book Women United : Stories of Women’s Struggles for Equality in the Canadian Auto Workers Union.

It has been 130 years since the 1885 Factories Act in Quebec limited working hours to 60 hours a week for women and children, and started Canada on its path to addressing workplace health and safety issues. Another 60 years later, the Female Employees Fair Remuneration Act of 1952 was passed in Ontario, which mandated equal pay for men and women doing the same job. Women workers have come a long way since that law was enacted 75 years ago – a fitting to

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