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Title: Canada Action Network rally against free trade, Canada Place; UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] bus. [business] agent Jim Sinclair
Date: 1993-05-15
Collection: Fisherman Publishing Society Photographs

Title: Canada Action Network anti-free trade rally, Canada Place, with Ucluelet fish workers: Jim Sinclair
Date: 1993-05-15
Collection: Fisherman Publishing Society Photographs

Title: Canada Action Network anti-free trade rally, Canada Place, with Ucluelet fish workers: UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] Local 49 member Bob Walton from Ucluelet
Date: 1993-05-15
Collection: Fisherman Publishing Society Photographs

Title: Vancouver District Labour Council rally against Bills 19, 20, IWA [International Woodworkers of America] Hall
Description: Emergency meeting called by Vancouver and District Labour Council to hear B.C. Federation of Labour secretary Cliff Andstein (shown speaking) and B.C. Teachers Federation president Elsie McMurphy outline a labour campaign against two pieces of anti-labour legislation introduced by the Social Credit government April 2. The meeting launched a huge
Show moreEmergency meeting called by Vancouver and District Labour Council to hear B.C. Federation of Labour secretary Cliff Andstein (shown speaking) and B.C. Teachers Federation president Elsie McMurphy outline a labour campaign against two pieces of anti-labour legislation introduced by the Social Credit government April 2. The meeting launched a huge campaign against Bill 19, the Industrial Relations Reform Act and Bill 20, the Teaching Profession Act.
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Date: 1987-04-05

Title: BC Fed [British Columbia Federation of Labour] UIC [Unemployment Insurance Commission] cutbacks rally, PNE gardens
Description: B.C. Federation of Labour president Jim Kinnaird addressing rally of 1,000 at PNE Gardens, called as part of a Canadian Labour Congress campaign against restrictions on unemployment insurance introduced by the former Liberal government and new restrictions proposed by the Conservative government of Joe Clark.
Date: 1979-10-11

Title: BC Fed [British Columbia Federation of Labour] UIC [Unemployment Insurance Commission] cutbacks rally, PNE Gardens Oct.11/79
Description: NDP MP Stu Leggatt addressing B.C. Federation of Labour rally of 1,000 at PNE Gardens, called as part of Canadian Labour Congress campaign against restrictions on unemployment insurance introduced by former Liberal government and new restrictions proposed by Conservative government of Joe Clark.
Date: 1979-10-11

Title: May Day march, Vancouver
Description: May Day march through east Vancouver marks the first march since 1962. In the 1970s and 1980s May Day rallies were a major affair with speeches by both NDP and Communist Party representatives. May Day events were later to involve a series of events throughout the month under the banner, Mayworks. In the 1990s May Day events waned, the likely victim
Show moreMay Day march through east Vancouver marks the first march since 1962. In the 1970s and 1980s May Day rallies were a major affair with speeches by both NDP and Communist Party representatives. May Day events were later to involve a series of events throughout the month under the banner, Mayworks. In the 1990s May Day events waned, the likely victim of the decline of left forces following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1992.
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Date: 1982-05-01

Title: PSAC [Public Service Alliance of Canada] president Pierre Samson at rally against wage controls, J.O. Auditorium - Mike Kramer, British Columbia Federation of Labour
Date: 1982-11-23

Title: PSAC [Public Service Alliance of Canada] president Pierre Samson at rally against wage controls, J.O. Auditorium
Date: 1982-11-23

Title: Vancouver District Labour Council rally on anti-labour bills
Description: Emergency meeting called by Vancouver and District Labour Council to hear B.C. Federation of Labour secretary Cliff Andstein (shown speaking) and B.C. Teachers Federation president Elsie McMurphy outline a labour campaign against two pieces of anti-labour legislation introduced by the Social Credit government April 2. The meeting launched a huge
Show moreEmergency meeting called by Vancouver and District Labour Council to hear B.C. Federation of Labour secretary Cliff Andstein (shown speaking) and B.C. Teachers Federation president Elsie McMurphy outline a labour campaign against two pieces of anti-labour legislation introduced by the Social Credit government April 2. The meeting launched a huge campaign against Bill 19, the Industrial Relations Reform Act and Bill 20, the Teaching Profession Act.
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Date: 1987-04-05

Title: Vancouver District Labour Council rally against Bills 19, 20, IWA [International Woodworkers of America] Hall
Description: Emergency meeting called by Vancouver and District Labour Council to hear B.C. Federation of Labour secretary Cliff Andstein (shown speaking) and B.C. Teachers Federation president Elsie McMurphy outline a labour campaign against two pieces of anti-labour legislation introduced by the Social Credit government April 2. The meeting launched a huge
Show moreEmergency meeting called by Vancouver and District Labour Council to hear B.C. Federation of Labour secretary Cliff Andstein (shown speaking) and B.C. Teachers Federation president Elsie McMurphy outline a labour campaign against two pieces of anti-labour legislation introduced by the Social Credit government April 2. The meeting launched a huge campaign against Bill 19, the Industrial Relations Reform Act and Bill 20, the Teaching Profession Act.
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Date: 1987-04-05

Title: BC Fed [British Columbia Federation of Labour] rally against bills [19 and 20 at the Agrodome]
Description: Photograph shows B.C. Federation of Labour secretary Cliff Andstein addressing the rally.
Date: 1987-04-14

Title: Building trades rally against Bill 19/20, Apr. 13
Date: 1987-04-13

Title: BC Fed [British Columbia Federation of Labour] rally against bills [19 and 20 at the Agrodome]
Date: 1987-04-14

Title: BC Fed [British Columbia Federation of Labour] rally against bills [19 and 20 at the Agrodome]
Description: Photograph shows B.C. and Yukon Building Trades Council president Roy Gautier speaking.
Date: 1987-04-14

Title: BC Fed [British Columbia Federation of Labour] rally against bills [19 and 20 at the Agrodome]
Description: Photograph shows B.C. and Yukon Building Trades Council president Roy Gautier speaking.
Date: 1987-04-14

Title: CAIMAW [Canadian Association of Industrial, Mechanical and Allied Workers] rally against Western Canada Steel, Southwest Marine Drive
Description: Members of CAIMAW Local 6 demonstrate outside Western Canada Steel in south Vancouver. The plant's new owners proposed major concessions in a five-year agreement; accept it, or we'll close the plant. Later the company, IPSCO Ltd., filed a letter with the Industrial Relations Council denying the offer and stating its intention to close the plant.
Show moreMembers of CAIMAW Local 6 demonstrate outside Western Canada Steel in south Vancouver. The plant's new owners proposed major concessions in a five-year agreement; accept it, or we'll close the plant. Later the company, IPSCO Ltd., filed a letter with the Industrial Relations Council denying the offer and stating its intention to close the plant. Speakers at the rally, including a former plant manager and a Social Credit MLA, said the plant was viable and its removal would leave the province without a steel plant -- the only province without one west of New Brunswick, said an official with the Confederation of Canadian Unions. The plant was ultimately closed. Speaker is former plant manager Stuart Gilbertson.
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Date: 1989-01-05

Title: CAIMAW [Canadian Association of Industrial, Mechanical and Allied Workers] rally against Western Canada Steel closure, at plant
Description: Members of CAIMAW Local 6 demonstrate outside Western Canada Steel in south Vancouver. The plant's new owners proposed major concessions in a five-year agreement; accept it, or we'll close the plant. Later the company, IPSCO Ltd., filed a letter with the Industrial Relations Council denying the offer and stating its intention to close the plant.
Show moreMembers of CAIMAW Local 6 demonstrate outside Western Canada Steel in south Vancouver. The plant's new owners proposed major concessions in a five-year agreement; accept it, or we'll close the plant. Later the company, IPSCO Ltd., filed a letter with the Industrial Relations Council denying the offer and stating its intention to close the plant. Speakers at the rally, including a former plant manager and a Social Credit MLA, said the plant was viable and its removal would leave the province without a steel plant -- the only province without one west of New Brunswick, said an official with the Confederation of Canadian Unions. The plant was ultimately closed. Jess Succamore of the CCU at mic.
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Date: 1989-01-05

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: BC Fed [British Columbia Federation of Labour], carpenters rally re: Citation dispute at Citation plant
Description: B.C. Federation of Labour secretary Cliff Andstein speaking to BC Fed rally organized in support of striking Carpenter shopcraft Local 1928 workers at Citation Cabinets Sept. 9. Members of Carpenters shop Local 1928 continue strike against Citation Cabinets despite firings of 130 workers and efforts by the company to obtain court enforcement of an
Show moreB.C. Federation of Labour secretary Cliff Andstein speaking to BC Fed rally organized in support of striking Carpenter shopcraft Local 1928 workers at Citation Cabinets Sept. 9. Members of Carpenters shop Local 1928 continue strike against Citation Cabinets despite firings of 130 workers and efforts by the company to obtain court enforcement of an Industrial Relations Commission ruling that the strike and picket line were illegal. B.C. Supreme Court Justice William Trainor denied an order upholding the IRC but the Attorney-General and the company appealed his ruling to the B.C. Court of Appeal, which struck down Trainor's ruling and ruled that strikers were in contempt of court for continuing to picket. However, the IRC ruled later that there was not, in fact, a collective agreement in place, opening the door for the local to conduct another strike vote and continue picketing.
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Date: 1988-09-09

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