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• The Swiss Chalet Workers - p.04 - The Deal Goes Down
  Tue, Nov 30, 1999 :: by Members for Democracy
  By February 1985, over a year after it began its extraordinary organizing campaign of Swiss Chalet Restaurants across Ontario, the UFCW had come a long way....
  
  
• The Swiss Chalet Workers - p.03 - The Party's Over
  Tue, Nov 30, 1999 :: by Members for Democracy
  By the fall of 1983, CURRE had established itself as one of the largest unions in the Canadian restaurant industry and, in a quiet kind of way, a respected player in the community of biz-unions....
  
  
• The Swiss Chalet Workers: Part 6 - A story that needs to be told & understood
  Tue, Nov 30, 1999 :: by Members for Democracy
  The story of the Swiss Chalet workers. A group of some 4000 restaurant workers, employed by a major Canadian franchised restaurant chain....
  
  
• The Swiss Chalet Workers - p.02 - Sweetheart or Biz-Union?
  Tue, Nov 30, 1999 :: by Members for Democracy
  William von Ferst organized 31 Swiss Chalet Restaurants and negotiated collective agreements for each of them in a period of less than two years from 1978 to 1980....
  
  
• The Swiss Chalet Workers - p.05 - Life in Labour's Mainstream
  Tue, Nov 30, 1999 :: by Members for Democracy
  n the spring of 1985 the UFCW brought an extraordinary organizing campaign to an abrupt halt just weeks before the Ontario Labour Relations Board was to process its 25 applications for certification at Swiss Chalet Restaurants across Ontario....