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Title: Building trades pickets at Metrotown Hyundai re: boycott
Description: Building Trades workers picket Hyundai car dealership at Metrotown in Burnaby to protest the South Korean corporation's partnership with notorious anti-union firm JC Kerkhoff. Also targeted was Hyundai's treatment of its workers in Korea. Hyundai and Kerkhoff were later to provide the pile-driving on the Skytrain bridge over the Fraser River,
Show moreBuilding Trades workers picket Hyundai car dealership at Metrotown in Burnaby to protest the South Korean corporation's partnership with notorious anti-union firm JC Kerkhoff. Also targeted was Hyundai's treatment of its workers in Korea. Hyundai and Kerkhoff were later to provide the pile-driving on the Skytrain bridge over the Fraser River, ending the dominance of the Carpenters Union in that field and presaging the decimation of union labour in construction.
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Date: 1988-03-19

Title: CAIMAW [Canadian Association of Industrial, Mechanical and Allied Workers] pickets at White Spot
Description: Canadian Association of Industrial, Mechanical and Allied Workers (CAIMAW) picket White Spot restaurant at 13th and Cambie in Vancouver Aug. 29, 1988, two days after the union launched a strike against company concessions. Formerly the Food and Service Workers Union, the union had begun merger talks with CAIMAW the year before the 1988 contract
Show moreCanadian Association of Industrial, Mechanical and Allied Workers (CAIMAW) picket White Spot restaurant at 13th and Cambie in Vancouver Aug. 29, 1988, two days after the union launched a strike against company concessions. Formerly the Food and Service Workers Union, the union had begun merger talks with CAIMAW the year before the 1988 contract expiry date in anticipation of what proved to be a difficult dispute. The strike lasted 10.5 weeks but resulted in gains for restaurant employees, including shifts by seniority, setting a pattern for much of the service sector.
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Date: 1988-08-29

Title: CUPW [Canadian Union of Postal Workers] picket lines at main Vancouver post office with scab buses
Description: Members of CUPW and other unions picket the main post office in Vancouver on the first day of the CUPW national strike, called when the federal government introduced back-to-work legislation Oct. 8 that provided for appointment of a mediator with potential authority to impose a settlement. Picketing continued for several days while the legislation
Show moreMembers of CUPW and other unions picket the main post office in Vancouver on the first day of the CUPW national strike, called when the federal government introduced back-to-work legislation Oct. 8 that provided for appointment of a mediator with potential authority to impose a settlement. Picketing continued for several days while the legislation was before Parliament as Canada Post stepped up its use of strikebreakers.
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Date: 1987-10-10

Title: Operation Solidarity picket, Holiday Inn
Date: 1984-03-31

Title: Muckamuck restaurant strike begins
Description: Aboriginal workers, newly-organized into the Service, Office and Retail Workers of Canada (SORWUC) went on strike against the Muckamuck Restaurant, the city's first restaurant serving Northwest Coast aboriginal cuisine, demanding wage increases and reinstatement of workers fired for union activity. Workers maintained the picket line for three years
Show moreAboriginal workers, newly-organized into the Service, Office and Retail Workers of Canada (SORWUC) went on strike against the Muckamuck Restaurant, the city's first restaurant serving Northwest Coast aboriginal cuisine, demanding wage increases and reinstatement of workers fired for union activity. Workers maintained the picket line for three years while owner kept the restaurant operating with strikebreakers. After a further two years, the Labour Relations Board ordered owners to pay remedies to the workers for the employer's action during the lengthy dispute, but they closed the doors and left the country without complying.
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Date: 1978-06-04

Title: OTEU [Office and Technical Employees Union] pickets on Oakridge Translink garage
Date: 1984-02-08

Title: UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] - B.C. Ice pickets
Description: Support picket at B.C. Ice and Cold Storage plant on Vancouver waterfront where UFAWU shoreworkers had been on strike for twelve weeks. B.C. Federation of Labour followed the action with a hot edict against B.C. Ice products to curb company strikebreaking.
Date: 1979-10-30

Title: Letter carriers picket, Vancouver Main Post Office
Description: Letter Carriers Union of Canada pickets outside Vancouver's main post office as the union stepped up its strategy of rotating strikes in the face of Canada Post's use of strikebreakers to carry mail. The following day, BC Supreme Court Justice Mary Southin brought down an injunction limiting pickets to three throughout the "county of Vancouver" —
Show moreLetter Carriers Union of Canada pickets outside Vancouver's main post office as the union stepped up its strategy of rotating strikes in the face of Canada Post's use of strikebreakers to carry mail. The following day, BC Supreme Court Justice Mary Southin brought down an injunction limiting pickets to three throughout the "county of Vancouver" — which according to the ruling, extended north to Powell River and east to Hope. The LCUC was successful, however, in winning a collective agreement that removed concessions from the table.
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Date: 1987-06-18

Title: BCGEU [British Columbia Government Employees Union] pickets, Clark at TWU [Transport Workers Union]
Description: BC Government Employees Union strike to back bargaining demands, under the shadow of the Social Credit government's Compensation Stabilization Act - - one of the early onslaught's on public sector wages in a battle against workers' wages and living standards that continues in the western world to the time of this writing (2015).
Date: 1982-08-06

Title: Airport pickets
Date: 1985-09-19

Title: PSAC [Public Service Alliance of Canada] picket, Sinclair Centre, Vancouver
Description: Members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada picket Vancouver's Sinclair Centre, a federal government facility. PSAC strike targeted cutbacks to the federal civil service ranks and increased use of contracted workers, part of the Conservative government's plans to privatize public services.
Date: 1991-09-09

Title: Theatre Employees Union pickets
Description: Pickets at Famous Players Capitol 6 on Granville Street after being locked out by the company in a demand for concessions on weekend work and work by management. The B.C. Federation of Labour declared a boycott of the chain's theatres.
Date: 1984-09-27

Title: Theatre Employees Union pickets
Description: Pickets at Famous Players Capitol 6 on Granville Street after being locked out by the company in a demand for concessions on weekend work and work by management. The B.C. Federation of Labour declared a boycott of the chain's theatres.
Date: 1984-09-27

Title: UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] pickets, Canadian Fish, Campbell Avenue plant
Description: UFAWU shoreworkers picket at Campbell Save dock in support of four-day tendermen's strike that was successful in winning a pace-setting agreement, the first since the expiry of wage controls.
Date: 1978-07-04

Title: CUPW [Canadian Union of Postal Workers] demonstration outside Vancouver post office, on national protest
Date: 1979-02-14

Title: CUPW [Canadian Union of Postal Workers] demonstration outside Vancouver post office, on national protest
Date: 1979-02-14

Title: Pacific Press pickets
Description: Vancouver New Westminster Newspaper Guild members picket the Pacific Press building in Vancouver as the strike against the company entered its sixth month. Job security was the critical issue, with printing pressmen seeking to maintain staffing levels on the paper's presses.
Date: 1979-04-20

Title: Pacific Press pickets
Description: Vancouver New Westminster Newspaper Guild members picket the Pacific Press building in Vancouver as the strike against the company entered its sixth month. Job security was the critical issue, with printing pressmen seeking to maintain staffing levels on the paper's presses.
Date: 1979-04-20

Title: Pickets at Vancouver General Hospital on opening day of strike
Date: 1976-05-04

Title: Pickets at Vancouver General Hospital on opening day of strike
Date: 1976-05-04

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