Every summer, right about now, the local union (CAW303) would have a picnic in a Scarborough park. Always well-attended, it brought together people from all three shifts (two production and one maintenance) for a day of fun and bonding. All the usual stuff, 3-legged races, egg races, water-dunking union executives, arm-wrestling competitions. Everyone's children would play together. As a plant with many generations of families working together, drawing on the local community, there were many co-workers, and more than a few spouses that had met this way as children.In a period when you could still grow up in sight of a place like that, which fed the community and where you might know you could find a job as an adult, these picnics both brought together current co-workers and inducted future co-workers into the rich community life within the plant.
It was truly a family event.
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Photos of the GM Scarborough Van Plant - by Gayle Hurmuses - Exhibition and video screening
Wednesday, September 14 · 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Steam Whistle Brewery - The Roundhouse – 255 Bremner Blvd, Toronto, ON
416-532-2702
http://hurmuses.com/designcontent/ExtendedFamily.html
http://hurmuses.com/exhibsite/ExtendedFamilyAtSteamwhistle.pdf
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