The David Yorke Labour History Collection: BC-Related Union Materials

The David Yorke Labour History Collection: BC-Related Union Materials is part of a larger collection that documents labour history across Canada and internationally. This sub-collection features dues buttons, delegate badges, convention ribbons, membership pins, agendas, photographs, constitutions, dues receipts, correspondence, pamphlets, and periodicals specifically related to labour unions in British Columbia. This content provides an emblematic history of local provincial organizations and illustrates the evolution of the provincial labour movement across the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. As the country, workforce, and economy grew, workers increasingly chose to align themselves with larger national unions.

The David Yorke Labour History Collection: BC-Related Union Materials is part of a larger collection that documents labour history across Canada and internationally. This sub-collection features dues buttons, delegate badges, convention ribbons, membership pins, agendas, photographs, constitutions, dues receipts, correspondence, pamphlets, and periodicals specifically related to labour unions in British Columbia. This content provides an emblematic history of local provincial organizations and illustrates the evolution of the provincial labour movement across the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. As the country, workforce, and economy grew, workers increasingly chose to align themselves with larger national unions.

Highlights

The David Yorke Labour History Collection: BC-Related Union Materials includes unions related to the province’s major industries—BC Ferry and Marine Workers Union, BC Electric Office Employees’ Association, BC Fruit and Vegetable Workers’ Union, and BC Loggers Union. Large public sector unions such as the British Columbia Government Employees Union, BC Teachers Federation, and BC Nurses Union are also represented. The BC Federation of Labour which played an active role in organizing and strike support, education, and campaigns on social issues and labour standards protection is also included. This content offers insight into the political and sociocultural landscape of British Columbia and illustrates the contribution of labour unions to the improvement of workers’ everyday lives. Researchers will be able to trace how local provincial organizations positioned themselves against or in collaboration with other provincial, national, and international labour organizations.

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Acknowledgements

SFU Library gratefully acknowledges the financial support provided by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre's B.C. History Digitization Program.

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Catch up, keep up: Bargaining '82.

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Date: 1982
Description: BCGEU button for collective bargaining in 1982.

Catherine Glennie for V.P.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s to Unknown year in the century of the 2000s
Description: BCGEU campaign button for Catherine Glennie.

Change is in our hands.

Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s to Unknown year in the century of the 2000s
Description: BCGEU Community and social action committee anti-poverty project pamphlet.

Choisessez la bonne reponse.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s to Unknown year in the century of the 2000s
Description: BCTF asking to make a choice between testing and teaching.

Choose the best answer.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s to Unknown year in the century of the 2000s
Description: BCTF button advocating for teaching over testing.

Class size in contract.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s to Unknown year in the century of the 2000s
Description: Teachers' button advocating for class size stipulations in collective bargaining agreements.

Community social workers: caring for a living.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s to Unknown year in the century of the 2000s
Description: BCGEU button advocating for social workers.

Concessions are a lost cause.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s to Unknown year in the century of the 2000s
Description: Button against making concessions in collective bargaining.

Constituency assistants deserve better.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s to Unknown year in the century of the 2000s
Description: BCGEU button advocating for constituency assistants.

Constitution and laws of the One Big Union : as amended at the Port Arthur Convention, September, 1920

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Date: 1920-09
Description: Constitution and Laws of the One Big Union, September 1920

Constitution of the British Columbia Federation of Labor, amended as of November, 1996.

Date: 1996
Description: 1996 Constitution of the British Columbia Federation of Labor

Contempt for Bill 82.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s to Unknown year in the century of the 2000s
Description: Button protesting Bill 82.

Contract rights = professional rights.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s to Unknown year in the century of the 2000s
Description: Button advocating for contract rights.

Convention agenda for 55th B.C. Federation of Labor convention, November 26-30, 2012.

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Date: 2006-11-30 to 2012-11-26
Description: Agenda for 55th annual convention of the B.C. Federation of Labor, held November 26-30, 2012, held in Vancouver, British Columbia.

CUPW on strike.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s to Unknown year in the century of the 2000s
Description: CUPW button.