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Title: [Man holding a poster that says "Canada closed for the day" at the British Columbia Federation of Labour "Out to fight controls" demonstration]
Date: 1970-01-01 -- 1989-12-31
Collection: Fisherman Publishing Society Photographs

Title: [1987/1988 GATT (General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade) demonstrations]
Date: 1987-08
Collection: Fisherman Publishing Society Photographs

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

Title: Vancouver District Labour Council march and rally against Bills 19 and 20
Description: In an action called by the Vancouver and District Labour Council, trade unionists march through downtown Vancouver streets to rally in Robson Square against Bills 19 and 20. The rally, which drew 7,000 people, also kicked off the B.C. Federation of Labour's work-to-rule and ban on overtime, the first phase of job action against the legislation.
Show moreIn an action called by the Vancouver and District Labour Council, trade unionists march through downtown Vancouver streets to rally in Robson Square against Bills 19 and 20. The rally, which drew 7,000 people, also kicked off the B.C. Federation of Labour's work-to-rule and ban on overtime, the first phase of job action against the legislation. Photograph shows VDLC president Frank Kennedy addressing the rally.
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Date: 1987-05-20

Title: Demonstration by ad hoc coalition against Inter-American Development Bank
Date: 1978-04-18

Title: Carpenters demonstration against Pennyfarthing Development over Harbor Cove site
Description: Building Trades workers demonstrate outside offices of Pennyfarthing Development Corporation in Vancouver after the original union contractor for the federally-funded condominium development project in False Creek, Stevenson Construction, moved to give contract to anti-union construction firm J.C. Kerkhoff and Sons Ltd. BC and Yukon Building Trades
Show moreBuilding Trades workers demonstrate outside offices of Pennyfarthing Development Corporation in Vancouver after the original union contractor for the federally-funded condominium development project in False Creek, Stevenson Construction, moved to give contract to anti-union construction firm J.C. Kerkhoff and Sons Ltd. BC and Yukon Building Trades Council Roy Gautier is second from right.
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Date: 1984-01-20

Title: Carpenters demonstration against Pennyfarthing Development over Harbor Cove site
Description: Building Trades workers demonstrate outside offices of Pennyfarthing Development Corporation in Vancouver after the original union contractor for the federally-funded condominium development project in False Creek, Stevenson Construction, moved to give contract to anti-union construction firm J.C. Kerkhoff and Sons Ltd.
Date: 1984-01-20

Title: Fed. [British Columbia Federation of Labour] demonstration, Vancouver
Description: Delegates from B.C. Federation of Labour convention join march outside old courthouse at Georgia and Howe before marching through downtown streets in opposition to federal government's wage control program and strikebreaking at Canada Post.
Date: 1975-11-07

Title: Carpenters unemployed march, New Westminster
Description: Carpenters, facing an unemployed rate of 32 per cent among their ranks, march in downtown New Westminster demanding government action to create jobs. The march highlighted a project where a once-planned ICBC centre was to be replaced by a mall and hotel complex but was stalled by government inaction.
Date: 1977-05-10

Title: DERA [Downtown Eastside Residents Association] demonstration outside Rent Review Commission - 1170 Hornby
Date: 1975-05-25

Title: CUPE [Canadian Union of Public Employees] demonstration, Vancouver city hall
Description: Rally of 2,500 people outside Vancouver city hall, organized by CUPE to demand that municipal employers return to the bargain table and address demand for wage parity with provincial government employees. Photo shows Dave Werlin, secretary of CUPE Local 1004, representing City of Vancouver outside workers, addressing the rally.
Date: 1975-03-21

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