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Calculated from Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, AFL-CIO-CLC, Canadian District Council. Moncton, New Brunswick, October 29-30, 1979 (mimeo); and from CALURA. The 17 per cent figure is based on 115 of the…

RWDSU Record, 3 (23), December 9, 1956, p. 14. See also RWDSU Record, 2 (5), March 20, 1955, p. 14; 2 (11), June 12, 1955, p. 15; 3 (20), October 28, 1956, p. 15; 5 (1), January 19, 1958, p.…

RWDSU Record, 10 (5), March 10, 1963, p. 8. During the 1950s, the RWDSU at Dominion Stores had negotiated lower pay raises for women than for men. See RWDSU Record, 5 (23), December 7, 1958, p. 8; 6 (15), August…

The most rapid gains made by women among the Canadian membership were during the 1960s when their proportion increased from 26.1 per cent in 1962 to 32.7 per cent in 1969; between 1969 and 1982, women increased only from 32.7…

Previous | Table of Contents | Title Page and Abstract | EJS Home Page (89) By the late 1960s and early 1970s, depending on the issue, there was a type of feminism emerging within the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store…

RWDSU Record, 21 (3), March, 1974, p. 16; 21 (8), August, 1974, p. 10; 21 (12), December, 1974, p. 16; 22 (10), October, 1975, p. 16; 23 (10), October, 1976, p. 13; 23 (11), November, 1976, p. 5; 25 (2),…

Next | Previous | Table of Contents | Title Page and Abstract | EJS Home Page (18) During the 1950s and 1960s, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union practised what would today be considered an extreme form of patriarchy.…

For definitional distinctions among ‘equal pay for equal work’, ‘equal pay for substantially similar work’, and ‘equal pay for work of equal value’, see Carl J. Cuneo, Pay Equity: The Labour-Feminist Challenge. (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1990), Chapter One.

RWDSU Record, 6 (16), August 30, 1959, p. 15; 9 (6), March 25, 1962, p. 15; 9 (9), May 6, 1962, p. 15; 9 (14), July 15, 1962, p. 15; 9 (22), November 18, 1962, p. 15; 16 (21), 1969,…

Calculated from U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Directory of National Unions and Employee Associations, 1975. Bulletin 1937. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1977, pp. 103, 106; Virginia A. Bergquist, “Women’s Participation in Labor Organizations,” Monthly Labor Review.…