{"id":27341,"date":"2014-04-01T12:20:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T17:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=27341"},"modified":"2014-04-03T11:20:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T16:20:35","slug":"brock-to-unveil-plaque-honouring-early-union-supporters-in-niagara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/04\/brock-to-unveil-plaque-honouring-early-union-supporters-in-niagara\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock to unveil plaque honouring early union supporters in Niagara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tomorrow, Brock will unveil a new plaque recognizing the significant contributions that local union members made to the University&#8217;s Founding Fund from 1965 to 1970.<\/p>\n<p>The plaque, which will be located in the Mackenzie Chown Complex 300-level hallway where blocks B and C meet, was proposed by Brock&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/social-sciences\/departments-and-centres\/labour-studies\">Centre for Labour Studies<\/a> as part of the University&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku50.ca\/\">50th anniversary celebrations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong>What:<\/strong> Plaque unveiling honouring early union supporters in Niagara<\/li>\n<li><strong>When:<\/strong> Wednesday, April 2 at 1:30 p.m.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Where:<\/strong> Mackenzie Chown Complex, 300-level hallway (B &amp; C blocks), Brock University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Labour unions played a key role in organizing voluntary payroll deduction in worksites across Niagara in support of the early growth and development of the University.<\/p>\n<p>In 1965, local unions throughout Niagara agreed to recommend to their respective memberships that each member donate a day&#8217;s pay each year to Brock for the next five years. Organized labour set a goal of $1-million for itself, but by 1970, had surpassed this target, having raised more than $1.4 million for the University&#8217;s Founding Fund.<\/p>\n<p>This amount represented almost a quarter of the total amount raised by the University&#8217;s Founding Committee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_27345\" style=\"width: 526px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/mckinnons-fund-raising-for-brock1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27345\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27345 \" title=\"mckinnons-fund-raising-for-brock1\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/mckinnons-fund-raising-for-brock1.jpg\" alt=\"Workers at McKinnon Industries \u2014 a subsidiary of General Motors (GM) \u2014 contributed to Brock University\u2019s Founding Fund (Special Collections and Archives, Brock University)\" width=\"516\" height=\"590\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27345\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers at McKinnon Industries \u2014 a subsidiary of General Motors (GM) \u2014 contributed to Brock University\u2019s Founding Fund (Special Collections and Archives, Brock University)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, Brock will unveil a new plaque recognizing the significant contributions that local union members made to the University&#8217;s Founding Fund from 1965 to 1970. The plaque, which will be located in the Mackenzie Chown Complex 300-level hallway where blocks B and C meet, was proposed by Brock&#8217;s Centre for Labour Studies as part of the University&#8217;s 50th anniversary celebrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[1076,1525,1577,110,1767],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27341"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27348,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27341\/revisions\/27348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}