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Title: Mass picket at Slade & Stewart
Description: Unionists mount mass picket outside main warehouse of Slade and Stewart to mark one-year anniversary of bitter lockout of Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union members by food wholesaler and to renew demand for legislation to ban the use of scab in labour disputes.
Date: 1985-05-17

Title: CAIMAW [Canadian Association of Industrial, Mechanical and Allied Workers] pickets at White Spot
Description: Canadian Association of Industrial, Mechanical and Allied Workers (CAIMAW) picket White Spot restaurant at 13th and Cambie in Vancouver Aug. 29, 1988, two days after the union launched a strike against company concessions. Formerly the Food and Service Workers Union, the union had begun merger talks with CAIMAW the year before the 1988 contract
Show moreCanadian Association of Industrial, Mechanical and Allied Workers (CAIMAW) picket White Spot restaurant at 13th and Cambie in Vancouver Aug. 29, 1988, two days after the union launched a strike against company concessions. Formerly the Food and Service Workers Union, the union had begun merger talks with CAIMAW the year before the 1988 contract expiry date in anticipation of what proved to be a difficult dispute. The strike lasted 10.5 weeks but resulted in gains for restaurant employees, including shifts by seniority, setting a pattern for much of the service sector.
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Date: 1988-08-29

Title: Grain workers pickets UGG [United Grain Growers Limited]
Description: Grainworkers set up pickets outside United Grain Growers Elevators on Vancouver's waterfront as company locked them out Aug. 26. Although the Perry Report, prepared by a federal conciliator in the dispute, was accepted by the Grain Workers Union, it was rejected by the companies.
Date: 1974-08-26

Title: IBEW [International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers] gas workers walkout over contract, Oct 5
Date: 1983-10-05

Title: IBEW [International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers] gas workers walkout over contract, Oct 5
Date: 1983-10-05

Title: B.C. Ferries pickets, Horseshoe Bay
Description: B.C. Ferry and Marine Workers set up picket lines at all ferry docks in an effort to win a first collective agreement with the B.C. Ferries Corporation, the new Crown corporation established by the provincial government earlier in the year to operate the ferry system. Photograph shows pickets at Horseshoe Bay terminal in West Vancouver.
Date: 1977-10-08

Title: Upholstery workers strike opening - Skyway Luggage Vancouver
Description: Workers at Skyway Luggage manufacturing plant in Vancouver, many of them new immigrants, launched strike against low wages under leadership of Upholstery Workers Local 1. Agreement was signed in August after union merged with Teamsters, but company closed plant in December.
Date: 1976-04-07

Title: Community rally (Grandview Park) in support of Skyway [Luggage] strikers
Description: Local residents and unionists take part in community rally organized by B.C. Federation of Labour in support of striking Skyway Luggage workers on strike since April 5 and facing contempt of court charges for picketing plant in defiance of injunctions. The workers eventually signed an agreement in August, after their union local amalgamated with
Show moreLocal residents and unionists take part in community rally organized by B.C. Federation of Labour in support of striking Skyway Luggage workers on strike since April 5 and facing contempt of court charges for picketing plant in defiance of injunctions. The workers eventually signed an agreement in August, after their union local amalgamated with the Teamsters. The company closed the Vancouver manufacturing plant permanently in December.
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Date: 1976-06-26

Title: Building trades pickets on Pennyfarthing - Harbor Cove site
Description: Building Trades workers continue protest against J.C. Kerkhoff and Sons Ltd. after union company, Stevenson Construction, the original contractor slated to build the Pennyfarthing development, transferred the building contract to anti-union Kerkhoff.
Date: 1984-03-05

Title: Building trades pickets on Pennyfarthing - Harbor Cove site
Description: Building Trades workers continue protest against J.C. Kerkhoff and Sons Ltd. after union company, Stevenson Construction, the original contractor slated to build the Pennyfarthing development, transferred the building contract to anti-union Kerkhoff.
Date: 1984-03-05

Title: OTEU [Office and Technical Employees Union] pickets on Oakridge Translink garage
Date: 1984-02-08

Title: UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] - B.C. Ice pickets
Description: Support picket at B.C. Ice and Cold Storage plant on Vancouver waterfront where UFAWU shoreworkers had been on strike for twelve weeks. B.C. Federation of Labour followed the action with a hot edict against B.C. Ice products to curb company strikebreaking.
Date: 1979-10-30

Title: AUCE [Association of University and College Employees] picket line, entrance to Simon Fraser University
Date: 1979-03-13

Title: NUPGE [National Union of Public and General Employees] press conference re: BCGEU [B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union] - Operation Solidarity strike
Description: Representatives of provincial government employees' unions from across Canada, many of them part of the National Union of Provincial Government Employees, hold a meeting in Burnaby to pledge full support to the BCGEU in its campaign and strike against Bill 3, the contentious Public Sector Restraint Act, which would fire government employees and
Show moreRepresentatives of provincial government employees' unions from across Canada, many of them part of the National Union of Provincial Government Employees, hold a meeting in Burnaby to pledge full support to the BCGEU in its campaign and strike against Bill 3, the contentious Public Sector Restraint Act, which would fire government employees and strip numerous clauses from their collective agreement. NUPGE also pledged $3 million to the BCGEU for the BCGEU strike.
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Date: 1983-11-05

Title: NUPGE [National Union of Public and General Employees] press conference re: BCGEU [B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union] - Operation Solidarity strike
Description: National Union of Provincial Government Employees president John Fryer (standing) pledges $3 million to the BCGEU strike fund at a news conference at BCGEU headquarters. The announcement followed a meeting of provincial government employees' unions from across Canada, many of them part of the National Union of Provincial Government Employees, to
Show moreNational Union of Provincial Government Employees president John Fryer (standing) pledges $3 million to the BCGEU strike fund at a news conference at BCGEU headquarters. The announcement followed a meeting of provincial government employees' unions from across Canada, many of them part of the National Union of Provincial Government Employees, to pledge full support to the BCGEU in its campaign and strike against Bill 3, the contentious Public Sector Restraint Act, which would fire government employees and strip numerous clauses from their collective agreement.
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Date: 1983-11-05

Title: Union of Psychiatric Nurses occupation of Woodlands
Description: Union of Psychiatric Nurses members picket Woodlands pyschiatrict institute. Finance Minister Mel Couveilier held out promise of 20.9 per cent wage hike over two years but government negotiators were not making that offer. Psych nurses were seeking job security while the government was downsizing institutions, and to close the wage gap with regular
Show moreUnion of Psychiatric Nurses members picket Woodlands pyschiatrict institute. Finance Minister Mel Couveilier held out promise of 20.9 per cent wage hike over two years but government negotiators were not making that offer. Psych nurses were seeking job security while the government was downsizing institutions, and to close the wage gap with regular registered nurses.
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Date: 1990-07-04

Title: B.C. Nurses strike, VGH [Vancouver General Hospital]
Description: Union of Psychiatric Nurses members picket Woodlands pyschiatrict institute. Finance Minister Mel Couveilier held out promise of 20.9 per cent wage hike over two years but government negotiators were not making that offer. Psych nurses were seeking job security while the government was downsizing institutions, and to close the wage gap with regular
Show moreUnion of Psychiatric Nurses members picket Woodlands pyschiatrict institute. Finance Minister Mel Couveilier held out promise of 20.9 per cent wage hike over two years but government negotiators were not making that offer. Psych nurses were seeking job security while the government was downsizing institutions, and to close the wage gap with regular registered nurses.
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Date: 1990-07-12

Title: Theatre Employees Union pickets
Description: Pickets at Famous Players Capitol 6 on Granville Street after being locked out by the company in a demand for concessions on weekend work and work by management. The B.C. Federation of Labour declared a boycott of the chain's theatres.
Date: 1984-09-27

Title: Theatre Employees Union pickets
Description: Pickets at Famous Players Capitol 6 on Granville Street after being locked out by the company in a demand for concessions on weekend work and work by management. The B.C. Federation of Labour declared a boycott of the chain's theatres.
Date: 1984-09-27

Title: Grain workers pickets UGG [United Grain Growers Limited]
Description: Grainworkers set up pickets outside United Grain Growers Elevators on Vancouver's waterfront as company locked them out Aug. 26. Although the Perry Report, prepared by a federal conciliator in the dispute, was accepted by the Grain Workers Union, it was rejected by the companies.
Date: 1974-08-26

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