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Title: COSCO [Council of Senior Citizens' Organization of British Columbia] rally at Robson Square - Russ Hunter, President [speaking to the media]
Date: 1991-08-13

Title: B.C. Fed Labor [British Columbia Federation of Labour] rally to back TWU [Telecommunications Workers Union], at B.C. Tel building
Description: Telecommunications Workers Union president Bill Clark addresses B.C. Federation of Labour rally at B.C. Tel headquarters in Burnaby to protest the company's labour relations record and to demand that the provincial government nationalize the telephone company and operate it as a public utility.
Date: 1980-11-26

Title: Citizens Against Apartheid demonstration at South African ship at Surrey Fraser docks
Description: Unionists participate in rally organized by Citizens Concerned Against Apartheid at Surrey Fraser docks where Dutch vessel Nedlloyd Kingston was arriving loaded with South African steel.
Date: 1985-09-03

Title: BC Fed [British Columbia Federation of Labour] rally outside [William Farrell] Building
Description: Telecommunications Workers Union president Bill Clark addresses a huge rally of 4,000 that filled the street outside B.C. Tel's William Farrell Building in downtown Vancouver as TWU members ended their occupation of the building. The occupation, set against the background of the company's refusal to endorse contract improvements recommended by
Show moreTelecommunications Workers Union president Bill Clark addresses a huge rally of 4,000 that filled the street outside B.C. Tel's William Farrell Building in downtown Vancouver as TWU members ended their occupation of the building. The occupation, set against the background of the company's refusal to endorse contract improvements recommended by conciliator Ed Peck, had begun spontaneously in Nanaimo February 3 when members were suspended for wearing a buttons promoting the union's Crown Corporation Now! campaign. It spread to other B.C. Tel operations including the downtown headquarters where nearly 1,000 TWU members took over the building before marching out at noon February 10 following a B.C .Supreme Court ruling that found the union in contempt for the earlier occupation in Nanaimo. The union reached a tentative agreement in early March but it would take a walkout by the entire unionized workforce in Nanaimo before the company agreed to reinstate twenty-four workers who had been fired.
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Date: 1981-02-10

Title: UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union] shore workers walkout
Description: United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union business agent Bill Procopation (Centre) talks to pickets at strike launch on Vancouver waterfront July 25.
Date: 1986-07-25

Title: Nanaimo Band - IWA [International Woodworkers of America] picket of CPR [Canadian Pacific Railway] track, Nanaimo Indian reserve
Description: Nanaimo Band chief Jerry talks to media on tracks cutting through land as band and IWA Local 1-80 join forces to halt shipment of logs destined for strikebound AgPulp mill in Port Alberni.
Date: 1986-10-06

Title: Nanaimo Band - IWA [International Woodworkers of America] picket of CPR [Canadian Pacific Railway] track, Nanaimo Indian reserve
Description: IWA Local 1-80 Lyn Kistner talks to media on tracks cutting through Nanaimo band land as band and IWA Local 1-80 join forces to halt shipment of logs destined for strikebound AgPulp mill in Port Alberni.
Date: 1986-10-06

Title: SAAL, Anti Apartheid Network demo in provincial government offices, Robson Street
Date: 1986-11-07

Title: CUPW [Canadian Union of Postal Workers] rally at main post office during rotating strike
Description: Some 300 unionists took part in the rally outside the main post office in Vancouver, called to protest increasing strikebreaking actions of Canada Post since the union began rotating strikes. Post offices across the country were equipped with barbed wire, with cafeterias and cots set up inside to accommodate replacement workers. The union later
Show moreSome 300 unionists took part in the rally outside the main post office in Vancouver, called to protest increasing strikebreaking actions of Canada Post since the union began rotating strikes. Post offices across the country were equipped with barbed wire, with cafeterias and cots set up inside to accommodate replacement workers. The union later launched country-wide strike action in response to legislation introduced in Parliament forcing postal workers back to work, along with a mediator given potential authority to impose a settlement.
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Date: 1987-10-03

Title: PSAC [Public Service Alliance of Canada] demonstration outside treasury board chair Pat Carney's office
Description: Public Service Alliance of Canada rally, organized in conjunction with Canadian Labour Congress convention, outisde Treasury Board minister Pat Carney's office in downtown Vancouver May 12, 1988.
Date: 1988-05-12

Title: Marine workers demo re: Polar 8 contract outside first ministers' meeting, Hotel Vancouver
Description: Rally by members of Marineworkers and Boilermakers Industrial Union members outside Canadian First Ministers' conference Nov. 20 at Hotel Vancouver demanding that federal government award Polar 8 icebreaker contract to Versatile Pacific Shipyard in B.C., the low bidder on the project. Union president John Fitzpatrick is shown here speaking to media
Show moreRally by members of Marineworkers and Boilermakers Industrial Union members outside Canadian First Ministers' conference Nov. 20 at Hotel Vancouver demanding that federal government award Polar 8 icebreaker contract to Versatile Pacific Shipyard in B.C., the low bidder on the project. Union president John Fitzpatrick is shown here speaking to media.
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Date: 1986-11-20

Title: Haidas and Svend Robinson outside Supreme Court after sentencing
Description: Miles Richardson, chairman of the Council of the Haida Nation, talks to media outside courthouse. Richardson and eight others were given five-month suspended sentences on contempt of court charges for blocking logging on Lyell Island. The 10th person charged, Willard Wilson, was not sentenced because he had pledged not to return to Lyell Island.
Show moreMiles Richardson, chairman of the Council of the Haida Nation, talks to media outside courthouse. Richardson and eight others were given five-month suspended sentences on contempt of court charges for blocking logging on Lyell Island. The 10th person charged, Willard Wilson, was not sentenced because he had pledged not to return to Lyell Island. Svend Robinson was fined $750 for his action.
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Date: 1985-12-06

Title: Rally at VIA [Rail] station re: VIA cuts on last transcontinental run (see Jan 22/90 Trib)
Date: 1990-01-17

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

Title: B.C. Fed [British Columbia Federation of Labour] lobby
Description: B.C. Federation of Labour secretary-treasurer Ray Haynes talking to reporters during BC Federation of Labour lobby of provincial MLAs demanding changes to proposed labour legislation. Among contentious points were the sweeping powers to be given the proposed new Labour Relations Board and the provision allowing opt-out from unions on religious
Show moreB.C. Federation of Labour secretary-treasurer Ray Haynes talking to reporters during BC Federation of Labour lobby of provincial MLAs demanding changes to proposed labour legislation. Among contentious points were the sweeping powers to be given the proposed new Labour Relations Board and the provision allowing opt-out from unions on religious grounds.
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Date: 1973-10-09

Title: B.C. Fed [British Columbia Federation of Labour] lobby
Description: Photo shows reporters interviewing NDP labour minister Bill King during BC Federation of Labour lobby of provincial MLAs demanding changes to proposed labour legislation. Among contentious points were the sweeping powers to be given to the proposed new Labour Relations Board and the provision allowing opt-out from unions on religious grounds.
Date: 1973-10-09

Title: B.C. Nurses Union, VMREU [Vancouver Municipal and Regional Employees Union] demonstration against school health cuts
Date: 1983-02-28

Title: CFU [Canadian Farmworkers Union] pickets at WCB [Workers' Compensation Board] hearings
Description: Members of Canadian Farmworkers Union and supporters demonstrate outside Workers Compensation Board hearings into proposed changes to regulations at WCB headquarters in Richmond. CFU was protesting exclusion of farm workers from WCB regulation. CFU president Raj Chouhan talks to reporters.
Date: 1984-01-16

Title: Building trades demonstration at old courthouse for Expo managers meeting
Date: 1984-05-07

Title: Community Services hearing re: Mainland Magazine
Date: 1984-05-03

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