Search results

Title: CUPW [Canadian Union of Postal Workers] information pickets
Description: Information picketing by CUPW members outside the main post office to mark the one-year anniversary of the passage of the 1978 legislation that removed postal workers' right to strike. The action also coincided with the Supreme Court of Canada appeal by CUPW president Jean-Claude Parrot who had been sentenced in May to three months in jail and 18
Show moreInformation picketing by CUPW members outside the main post office to mark the one-year anniversary of the passage of the 1978 legislation that removed postal workers' right to strike. The action also coincided with the Supreme Court of Canada appeal by CUPW president Jean-Claude Parrot who had been sentenced in May to three months in jail and 18 months probation for refusing to order members to return to work as required under Bill C-8, the legislation that ordered CUPW back to work. The appeal was denied and Parrot was jailed for two months in 1980 for his defiance of Bill C-8.
Show less
Date: 1979-10-19

Title: Walk for Peace
Description: Photograph shows the Downtown Eastside Residents' Association peace bus at the Walk for Peace.
Date: 1983-04-23

Title: Van Island IWA [International Woodworkers of America] demonstration at Legislature
Description: Woodworkers from across Vancouver Island rally on the steps of the legislature to demand provincial government action for jobs in the forest industry. More than one-quarter of the industry workforce was already unmployed.The rally was also part of a national campaign by the labour movement demanding that the federal government act to bring interest
Show moreWoodworkers from across Vancouver Island rally on the steps of the legislature to demand provincial government action for jobs in the forest industry. More than one-quarter of the industry workforce was already unmployed.The rally was also part of a national campaign by the labour movement demanding that the federal government act to bring interest rates down.
Show less
Date: 1981-11-26

Title: Carpenters president Bill Zander addressing Carpenters convention, Oct. 23
Date: 1981-10-23

Title: COPE [Committee of Progressive Electors] demonstration, Oct. 5, Broadway & Main
Date: 1973-10-05

Title: Hortensia Allende rally, J.O. Auditorium
Description: Hortensia Allende, widow of slain Chilean Popular Unity president Salvador Allende at public meeting in solidarity with democratic Chile, John Oliver Auditorium. Chairing the meeting was George Johnston, president of the BC Federation of Labour.
Date: 1973-12-02

Title: Tanker protest, Peace Arch
Description: Environmentalists, unionists and others demonstrate at the Peace Arch to protest U.S. plans to bring oil supertankers down the BC coast in conjunction with construction of the TransAlaskan pipeline. The opposition to the plan resulted the following year in the federal government's informal moratorium on tanker traffic on the coast. Among rally
Show moreEnvironmentalists, unionists and others demonstrate at the Peace Arch to protest U.S. plans to bring oil supertankers down the BC coast in conjunction with construction of the TransAlaskan pipeline. The opposition to the plan resulted the following year in the federal government's informal moratorium on tanker traffic on the coast. Among rally organizing groups was SPEC, then known as the Scientific Pollution and Environmental Society.
Show less
Date: 1973-09-30

Title: CFU [Canadian Farmworkers Union] protest over denial of WCB [Workers' Compensation Board] regulations to farm workers, Richmond WCB office
Description: Demonstration by farmworkers and trade union supporters against excluding agricultural workers from the protections of labour legislation, long sought by the Canadian Farmworkers Union. In announcing changes to the Labour Code, the Social Credit government also sought to limit rights of workers in general in new Labour Code provisions. This was the
Show moreDemonstration by farmworkers and trade union supporters against excluding agricultural workers from the protections of labour legislation, long sought by the Canadian Farmworkers Union. In announcing changes to the Labour Code, the Social Credit government also sought to limit rights of workers in general in new Labour Code provisions. This was the result of lobbying by employer groups, including the Employers Council of BC, which had moved to the right in its normally acceptance attitude to organized labour.
Show less
Date: 1983-03-22

Title: BC Fed [British Columbia Federation of Labour] press conference after all-union meeting
Date: 1984-05-16

Title: B.C. Economic Policy Institute press conference, UBC [University of British Columbia]
Description: UBC economists who formed the BC Economic Policy Institute in 1983 in response to the Social Credit government's contentious budget issue papers challenging the economic validity of the government's restraint policies. Right to left, Robert Evans, William Schworm, Gideon Rosenbluth, David Donaldson.
Date: 1984-05-07

Title: UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] job action, rally at Crab Park re: government position on GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade] ruling - Cliff Atleo, Native Brotherhood
Description: Some 2,000 shore plant workers, members of the UFAWU, walked off the job coastwide and rallied to protest federal government capitulation to U.S. Interests. At issue was the feds dropping a requirement that herring and several salmon species caught in BC waters be processed -- essentially gutted -- at B.C. plants before export. That decision
Show moreSome 2,000 shore plant workers, members of the UFAWU, walked off the job coastwide and rallied to protest federal government capitulation to U.S. Interests. At issue was the feds dropping a requirement that herring and several salmon species caught in BC waters be processed -- essentially gutted -- at B.C. plants before export. That decision followed US complaints to the then world trade body, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Such decisions led to closure of the vast majority of B.C. fish processing plants. Cliff Atleo, executive secretary of the Native Brotherhood of BC, at mic.
Show less
Date: 1989-05-03

Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World