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Porter Primers: A historic fight to unionize
Apr 11, 2022
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When the CBRE, Canada’s railway union, was created in 1908, it intentionally shut out Black porters. What ensued was a historic and decades-long struggle for Black railways employees to be heard at the negotiating table.
