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- ↑ "Inco employees in Ontario solidly behind locked out workers at Inco's Manitoba Division", Canada NewsWire, 16 September 1999, 14:12; Glen MacKenzie, "Inco's lockout chill spreads through Thompson", Winnipeg Free Press, 8 October 1999, A8; "Union cites cost of Inco strike", Globe and Mail, 29 November 1999, B2; Glen MacKenzie, "Thompson upbeat after Inco deal reached", Winnipeg Free Press, 8 December 1999, A3.
- ↑ Aldo Santin, "Inco digs in for another 15 years", Winnipeg Free Press, 15 February 2000, C9. Another expansion announcement followed in 2005. See "Inco to spend $34-million to prolong Thompson mine", National Post, 30 August 2005, FP4.
- ↑ "Inco workers get respect, 4.3% wage hike", Winnipeg Free Press, 16 September 2002, A4; Nicole Mordant, "Inco reaches tentative contract in Thompson", Globe and Mail, 13 September 2005, B6.
- ↑ Paul McKie, "Union leader aids in merger", Winnipeg Free Press, 9 September 1996, A4.
- ↑ Robert Matas, "Labour Congress boos Hargrove", Globe and Mail, 12 June 2002, A6.
- ↑ Cross Canada Support for Bill, Bill Blaikie, cached online source. Retrieved 9 December 2006. [ dead link ]
- ↑ "Manitoba's governing New Democrats are being urged to bring in new labour laws, including a ban on replacement workers", Broadcast News, 7 March 2004, 15:22.
- ↑ Bill Redekop, "Union boss outspoken role model", Winnipeg Free Press, 8 July 2002, A3.