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Elk Falls CEP pickets
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Photograph shows five CEP (Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union members picketing.
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Date
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1997-11
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Fisherman Publishing Society Photographs
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Picketers Rogers re: lockout
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Photograph shows three men from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local 213 locked out by Rogers Cable.
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Date
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1993-11
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Collection
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Fisherman Publishing Society Photographs
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Building trades pickets at Metrotown Hyundai re: boycott
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Building Trades workers picket Hyundai car dealership at Metrotown in Burnaby to protest the South Korean corporation's partnership with notorious anti-union firm JC Kerkhoff. Also targeted was Hyundai's treatment of its workers in Korea. Hyundai and Kerkhoff were later to provide the pile-driving on the Skytrain bridge over the Fraser River,
Show moreBuilding Trades workers picket Hyundai car dealership at Metrotown in Burnaby to protest the South Korean corporation's partnership with notorious anti-union firm JC Kerkhoff. Also targeted was Hyundai's treatment of its workers in Korea. Hyundai and Kerkhoff were later to provide the pile-driving on the Skytrain bridge over the Fraser River, ending the dominance of the Carpenters Union in that field and presaging the decimation of union labour in construction.
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1988-03-19
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CAIMAW [Canadian Association of Industrial, Mechanical and Allied Workers] pickets at White Spot
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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
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1988-08-29
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Grain workers pickets UGG [United Grain Growers Limited]
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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.
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Date
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1974-08-26
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B.C. Ferries pickets, Horseshoe Bay
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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.
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1977-10-08
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