TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1 Nothing Left for Me in Italy

CHAPTER 2 The Sand Hog Tragedy

CHAPTER 3 The Strike of 1960

CHAPTER 4 My Start with Local 183

CHAPTER 5 Arrested on the Job

CHAPTER 6 An Altar Boy in Prison

CHAPTER 7 Street Cred

CHAPTER 8 The Expansion of Local 183

CHAPTER 9 The Safety Crusade

CHAPTER 10 The Strike of 1967

CHAPTER 11 Ethnic Conflicts and a Shotgun Meeting

CHAPTER 12 A Case of Indigestion

CHAPTER 13 Sudbury Saturday Night

CHAPTER 14 A Prophecy Come True

CHAPTER 15 The Right Stuff

CHAPTER 16 The Invisible Paycheque

CHAPTER 17 At War with Washington

CHAPTER 18 Firing a Union Steward

CHAPTER 19 A Dirty Business

CHAPTER 20 Local 183 in Adolescence

CHAPTER 21 “That Son of a Bitch!”

CHAPTER 22 Lessons in Negotiation

CHAPTER 23 Snapped at by Trudeau

CHAPTER 24 My Establishment Years

CHAPTER 25 You Can Go Home Again

CHAPTER 26 The Guardian Angels

CHAPTER 27 The Bombshell Agreement

CHAPTER 28 Changing of the Guard

CHAPTER 29 My Career as a Developer

CHAPTER 30 My Last Strike

CHAPTER 31 Lunch with the Police

CHAPTER 32 The New Ontario Government, 1990

CHAPTER 33 The Peace Treaties

CHAPTER 34 The Rescue of the Bricklayers

CHAPTER 35 The Labrador Tragedy

CHAPTER 36 My Departure

CHAPTER 37 On Negotiation

Acknowledgements