Title: Copper Country - Strikes
Photographer: Gazette Photo
Subject Headings: Labor Movements - Labor Unions, Persons, Buildings - Commercial Buildings - Stores, Retail
Condition: Good
Description: Employees of Retail Store Employees Union Local 214 AFL-CIO, are picketing Fraki's Markets of Ontonagon, L'Anse and Calumet after five months of fruitless bargaining, workers said. Employees chose the union as their collective bargaining representative in December 1971. Contract issues are a Union shop, union pension and union health and welfare for workers and families. [Some of the employees picket in front of Fraki's store.]
Source of Description: Daily Mining Gazette Article [Cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Bob Skuggen
Date of Photo: May 10 1975
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 9.5 cm x 14.1 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: MS051-047-004-001
Collection Name: Daily Mining Gazette Photograph Collection
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