April 10-Regina Union Centre mural

On 12th Avenue and Angus Street is the Regina Union Centre. It's a building that all unions in Regina use to hold meetings, training, and such. Unions have been very much in the news lately because of their fight against Bill-80 (see this Leader Post article for more details).

I took a picture of this mural that is along the side of the building. It features all the different tools, gloves and work that unions protect through their collective agreements. It is over 7 feet in height and about 20 feet long.

UPDATE (Thanks to NYC comments!)

The artist of this worker's mural is Crystal Howie. When she was 23, she was chosen by the Saskatchewan Centennial Workers Celebration Committee to create a mural to celebrate Saskatchewan's workers' history (which was suggested by Armand Roy.) In the "Our Times" story about the mural by Doug Taylor, he quotes Crystal's reasons behind incorporating work gloves as part of her 32 ft by 10 ft mural:

"The glove is a symbol of the hand," says Howie, "and shows every line and crease of history that has been placed on it or, rather, worked into it. The hand, like the glove, is a map of a person's history, work, history, life lived."

The work was unveiled on September 13, 2003 on the International Day of Action Against the World Trade Organization.