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Title: Police eviction of carpenters, UIC [Unemployment Insurance Commission] occupation
Description: Carpenters union members occupy Vancouver regional office of the Unemployment Insurance Commission. They'd been ruled ineligible for UI benefits because the commission considered them still on strike, rather than laid off, despite a memorandum of agreement with employer Citation Industries, a local kitchen cabinet manufacturer.
Date: 1982-10-21

Title: Police eviction of carpenters, UIC [Unemployment Insurance Commission] occupation
Description: Carpenters union members occupy Vancouver regional office of the Unemployment Insurance Commission. They'd been ruled ineligible for UI benefits because the commission considered them still on strike, rather than laid off, despite a memorandum of agreement with employer Citation Industries, a local kitchen cabinet manufacturer.
Date: 1982-10-21

Title: Dandelions leaders Jim Dougan, Jim Young, picket at CLRA [Construction Labour Relations Association] office
Description: Formed by unemployed Building Trades workers, the Dandelions picketed the offices of the Construction Labour Relations Association May 9 to support B.C. Building Trades unions in their efforts to push back CLRA demands for concessions. The employers' association was completing a lockout vote among its members, having already issued notice to unions
Show moreFormed by unemployed Building Trades workers, the Dandelions picketed the offices of the Construction Labour Relations Association May 9 to support B.C. Building Trades unions in their efforts to push back CLRA demands for concessions. The employers' association was completing a lockout vote among its members, having already issued notice to unions that unless new contracts incorporating CLRA cuts were signed, collective agreements could be terminated April 30 and new contracts imposed unilaterally. Photograph shows Plumbers union activist Jim Dougan speaking.
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Date: 1986-05-09

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