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Title: Trade union demonstration against Sandman Inn construction (1000 people)
Description: Building trades and other unions picket the construction site for the Sandman Inn at Georgia and Beatty streets in Vancouver which was being built non-union by the Gaglardi family. The rally also highlighted the labour movement's demand for changes to the labour code to permit information picketing. Photograph shows BC and Yukon Building Trades
Show moreBuilding trades and other unions picket the construction site for the Sandman Inn at Georgia and Beatty streets in Vancouver which was being built non-union by the Gaglardi family. The rally also highlighted the labour movement's demand for changes to the labour code to permit information picketing. Photograph shows BC and Yukon Building Trades Council secretary Cy Stairs speaking to the rally.
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Date: 1975-04-11

Title: Trade union demonstration against Sandman Inn construction (1000 people)
Description: Building trades and other unions picket the construction site for the Sandman Inn at Georgia and Beatty streets in Vancouver which was being built non-union by the Gaglardi family. The rally also highlighted the labour movement's demand for changes to the labour code to permit information picketing.
Date: 1975-04-11

Title: Building trades rally against Hyundai at Korean consulate
Description: Some 500 unionists demonstrate outside the Korean consulate in Vancouver calling for a boycott of Hyundai autos in protest over the Korean conglomerate's action in teaming up with notorious anti-union contractor Kerkhoff to build two major projects — the ALRT over the Fraser River and the Old Man River Dam in Alberta — non-union.
Date: 1987-09-22

Title: Building trades rally against Hyundai at Korean consulate
Description: Some 500 unionists demonstrate outside the Korean consulate in Vancouver calling for a boycott of Hyundai autos in protest over the Korean conglomerate's action in teaming up with notorious anti-union contractor Kerkhoff to build two major projects — the ALRT over the Fraser River and the Old Man River Dam in Alberta — non-union.
Date: 1987-09-22

Title: Vancouver - New Westminster building trades rally - picket at ICBA [Independent Contractors and Businesses Association] seminar, International Plaza Hotel
Description: Unionists picket conference of Independent Contactors and Businessmen's Association outside International Plaza Hotel in North Vancouver, site of a union-busting seminar hosted by the group with lawyer Peter Gall.
Date: 1985-11-09

Title: Vancouver - New Westminster building trades rally - picket at ICBA [Independent Contractors and Businesses Association] seminar, International Plaza Hotel
Description: Unionists picket conference of Independent Contactors and Businessmen's Association outside International Plaza Hotel in North Vancouver, site of a union-busting seminar hosted by the group with lawyer Peter Gall.
Date: 1985-11-09

Title: Vancouver - New Westminster building trades rally - picket at ICBA [Independent Contractors and Businesses Association] seminar, International Plaza Hotel
Description: Unionists picket conference of Independent Contactors and Businessmen's Association outside International Plaza Hotel in North Vancouver, site of a union-busting seminar hosted by the group with lawyer Peter Gall.
Date: 1985-11-09

Title: Building trades demonstration at old courthouse for Expo managers meeting
Description: Building Trades workers march from old courthouse to Expo site in support of demand for fair wages for all workers on Expo construction site.
Date: 1984-05-07

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

Title: Building trades demonstration at old courthouse for Expo managers meeting
Description: Building Trades workers rally at former courthouse site in Vancouver to demand fair wages for all workers at Expo construction site. B.C. and Yukon Building Trades Council secretary Cy Stairs.
Date: 1984-05-07