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Cleaners (most of them Portuguese immigrants) picket outside the First Canadian Place in downtown Toronto (Bay St.). They were organized by the Food and Services Workers of Canada.

Cleaners (most of them Portuguese immigrants) at the First Canadian Place, organized by the Canadian Food and Associated Services (later Food and Services Workers of Canada) union, vote to go on strike on June 3, 1984.

A small group of Portuguese workers in the picket line outside Lancia-Bravo Foods factory in Toronto. They were organized by the Canadian Food & Allied Workers Local 530.