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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.
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Date: 1981-11-26

Title: Anti-Apartheid Network rally at Pat Carney's office, Soweto Day
Date: 1986-06-16

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.
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Date: 1973-09-30

Title: VIA Rail rally, CN [Canadian National Railway] station, May 16
Date: 1984-05-16

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.
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Date: 1983-03-22

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.
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Date: 1989-05-03

Title: Shipyard workers at MP Chuck Cook's office re: Versatile [Pacific Shipyards] Polar 8
Description: Shipbuilders unions rallied outside Versatile Shipyards in North Vancouver to protest a federal government recommended closure of the yard. They also slammed the Tory government for reneging on a promise to divide work 50-50 between Vancouver and Victoria on a planned icebreaker, the Polar 8 (which was subsequently never built), and giving 80 per
Show moreShipbuilders unions rallied outside Versatile Shipyards in North Vancouver to protest a federal government recommended closure of the yard. They also slammed the Tory government for reneging on a promise to divide work 50-50 between Vancouver and Victoria on a planned icebreaker, the Polar 8 (which was subsequently never built), and giving 80 per cent of the work to Victoria. Protest generally focussed on the decline of west coast shipbuilding and the government's plans to rationalize the industry. Here they confront Tory North Vancouver MP Chuck Cook's in his constituency office.
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Date: 1988-04-15

Title: Carpenters protest at IRC [Industrial Relations Council] office re: BCED decertification
Description: Building Trades members protest Industrial Relations Council decision to allow large construction firm, BCE Development, to decertify. Labour was boycotting the IRC but trades were allowed a special exemption to appeal the ruling. The decertification of such a large firm was a sign of things to come. Colin Snell, secretary-treasurer of the B.C.
Show moreBuilding Trades members protest Industrial Relations Council decision to allow large construction firm, BCE Development, to decertify. Labour was boycotting the IRC but trades were allowed a special exemption to appeal the ruling. The decertification of such a large firm was a sign of things to come. Colin Snell, secretary-treasurer of the B.C. Provincial Council of Carpenters, at right.
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Date: 1988-04-19

Title: Lytton, Mount Currie bands at BCFP [British Columbia Forest Products Limited] annual general meeting re: Stein [Valley] logging - Chief Leonard Andrew, Mount Currie Band
Date: 1988-04-21

Title: UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] rally at Maritime Centre on day of protest against GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade] ruling
Description: Fish plant workers rally at the Maritime Labour Centre in Vancouver to protest a ruling by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. The Geneva based trade organization declared a Canadian law stipulating some salmon and roe herring caught in BC waters must be processed in Canada was a violation of free trade rules. The United Fishermen and
Show moreFish plant workers rally at the Maritime Labour Centre in Vancouver to protest a ruling by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. The Geneva based trade organization declared a Canadian law stipulating some salmon and roe herring caught in BC waters must be processed in Canada was a violation of free trade rules. The United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union sent a delegation to Ottawa to press the Conservative government to resist the ruling, the effect of which could cost 4,000 shoreworker jobs, they said.
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Date: 1988-03-04

Title: International Women's Day rally - song group AYA
Date: 1990-03-10

Title: Coalition Against Free Trade rally outside Noranda against GST, corporate handouts
Date: 1990-02-14

Title: Native groups rally [at] Canada Place over Globe 90 conference
Date: 1990-03-21

Title: March and rally by Unemployed Action Centre to Robson Square
Description: Some eighty-seven people, including trade unionists, community activists, tenants' rights activists and representatives of faith organizations, occupied the provincial cabinet offices in Vancouver for twenty-seven hours to take the demand raised throughout the province for withdrawal of the twenty-six pieces of legislation directly to the
Show moreSome eighty-seven people, including trade unionists, community activists, tenants' rights activists and representatives of faith organizations, occupied the provincial cabinet offices in Vancouver for twenty-seven hours to take the demand raised throughout the province for withdrawal of the twenty-six pieces of legislation directly to the government. They emerged to a tumultuous welcome from more than 2,000 people who had been staging a demonstration against staff and service cutbacks at the Ministry of Human Resources several blocks away. Photograph shows Provincial Council of Carpenters secretary Lorne Robson (right, in tie) and Hospital Employees Union president Bill MacDonald (with white beard) leading the occupiers down steps to Robson Square.
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Date: 1983-09-17

Title: Operation Solidarity rally, Empire Stadium
Description: Huge rally in Vancouver's Empire Stadium, the largest organized by Operation Solidarity, draws 50,000 people to protest the Social Credit government's budget and twenty-six pieces of legislation stripping away labour rights and cutting social programs.
Date: 1983-08-10

Title: Operation Solidarity rally, Empire Stadium
Description: Huge rally in Vancouver's Empire Stadium, the largest organized by Operation Solidarity, draws 50,000 people to protest the Social Credit government's budget and twenty-six pieces of legislation stripping away labour rights and cutting social programs.
Date: 1983-08-10

Title: Rally by Operation Solidarity at PNE dinner
Description: Operation Solidarity pickets greet Social Credit Provincial Secretary James Chabot at a PNE dinner as Operation Solidarity mounted province-wide strategy of picketing in the wake of three major demonstrations to follow cabinet ministers wherever they appeared and demand that the twenty-six bills be withdrawn. Photograph shows picketer handing a
Show moreOperation Solidarity pickets greet Social Credit Provincial Secretary James Chabot at a PNE dinner as Operation Solidarity mounted province-wide strategy of picketing in the wake of three major demonstrations to follow cabinet ministers wherever they appeared and demand that the twenty-six bills be withdrawn. Photograph shows picketer handing a leaflet to Chabot (in tie and jacket, centre).
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Date: 1983-08-27

Title: Operation Solidarity rally, Empire Stadium
Description: Huge rally in Vancouver's Empire Stadium, the largest organized by Operation Solidarity, draws 50,000 people to protest the Social Credit government's budget and twenty-six pieces of legislation stripping away labour rights and cutting social programs.
Date: 1983-08-10

Title: Operation Solidarity rally, Empire Stadium
Description: Huge rally in Vancouver's Empire Stadium, the largest organized by Operation Solidarity, draws 50,000 people to protest the Social Credit government's budget and twenty-six pieces of legislation stripping away labour rights and cutting social programs.
Date: 1983-08-10

Title: Operation Solidarity rally, Empire Stadium
Description: Huge rally in Vancouver's Empire Stadium, the largest organized by Operation Solidarity, draws 50,000 people to protest the Social Credit government's budget and twenty-six pieces of legislation stripping away labour rights and cutting social programs.
Date: 1983-08-10

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