EVENT INFORMATION

6
May
1969

Wescar workers strike over labor conditions

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📅 6 May 1969 📍

Around 400 workers employed by Wescar went on strike as their collective labor agreement expired and negotiations failed. Their demand for “equal work, equal pay” linked subcontracted labor conditions to the refinery’s wider hierarchy of work.

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