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![Shipyard workers at MP Chuck Cook's office re: Versatile [Pacific Shipyards] Polar 8](/islandora/object/pt%3A3633/datastream/TN/view)
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Shipyard workers at MP Chuck Cook's office re: Versatile [Pacific Shipyards] Polar 8
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Shipbuilders unions rallied outside Versatile Shipyards in North Vancouver to protest a federal government recommended closure of the yard. They also slammed the Tory government for reneging on a promise to divide work 50-50 between Vancouver and Victoria on a planned icebreaker, the Polar 8 (which was subsequently never built), and giving 80 per
Show moreShipbuilders unions rallied outside Versatile Shipyards in North Vancouver to protest a federal government recommended closure of the yard. They also slammed the Tory government for reneging on a promise to divide work 50-50 between Vancouver and Victoria on a planned icebreaker, the Polar 8 (which was subsequently never built), and giving 80 per cent of the work to Victoria. Protest generally focussed on the decline of west coast shipbuilding and the government's plans to rationalize the industry. Here they confront Tory North Vancouver MP Chuck Cook's in his constituency office.
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1988-04-15
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![ICTU [Independent Canadian Transit Union] membership meeting](/islandora/object/pt%3A1009/datastream/TN/view)
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ICTU [Independent Canadian Transit Union] membership meeting
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Seventy per cent of ICTU members turned out to membership meeting at PNE Agrodome where they voted 90% to reject the terms of the Morris report, prepared by former Canadian Labour Congress Joe Morris under government appointment. The report provided terms that differed little from the operating company's demands. Photograph shows ICTU president
Show moreSeventy per cent of ICTU members turned out to membership meeting at PNE Agrodome where they voted 90% to reject the terms of the Morris report, prepared by former Canadian Labour Congress Joe Morris under government appointment. The report provided terms that differed little from the operating company's demands. Photograph shows ICTU president Colin Kelly talking to the media following the vote. Union members were later forced back to work under threat of legislative sanction.
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1984-09-11
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![ICTU [Independent Canadian Transit Union] membership meeting](/islandora/object/pt%3A1010/datastream/TN/view)
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ICTU [Independent Canadian Transit Union] membership meeting
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Seventy per cent of ICTU members turned out to membership meeting at PNE Agrodome where they voted 90% to reject the terms of the Morris report, prepared by former Canadian Labour Congress Joe Morris under government appointment. The report provided terms that differed little from the operating company's demands. Photo shows ICTU president Colin
Show moreSeventy per cent of ICTU members turned out to membership meeting at PNE Agrodome where they voted 90% to reject the terms of the Morris report, prepared by former Canadian Labour Congress Joe Morris under government appointment. The report provided terms that differed little from the operating company's demands. Photo shows ICTU president Colin Kelly talking to the media following the vote. Union members were later forced back to work under threat of legislative sanction.
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1984-09-11
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Re-opening of Combines hearings
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United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union past president Homer Stevens (left), president Jack Nichol and secretary George Hewison confer outside the hearing room at the Hotel Vancouver as the Combines Branch renews investigation of the union under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act following the adjournment of hearings two years earlier. Although
Show moreUnited Fishermen and Allied Workers Union past president Homer Stevens (left), president Jack Nichol and secretary George Hewison confer outside the hearing room at the Hotel Vancouver as the Combines Branch renews investigation of the union under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act following the adjournment of hearings two years earlier. Although presented as an investigation into the whole fishing industry, documents presented during hearings and court proceedings showed clearly that the UFAWU was the sole target of the probe. Union officers refused to answer questions about the union's internal affairs at the hearings, and challenged the authority of the Combines branch to compel them to appear, arguing that organizations of "workmen" were exempted from the provisions of the Act. Their argument was ultimately upheld when B.C. Supreme Court Justice Harry McKay ruled Oct. 9, 1979 that working fishermen were indeed workmen and therefore could not be ordered to appear. While he made no ruling on the Combines investigation itself, no further hearings were ever held.
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1979-01-29
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ICBC protest rally - Victoria legislature
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The newly-elected Social Credit government's announcement in January, 1976 that it would increase ICBC rates for auto insurance by 2X to 3X existing rates, and eliminate provisions that kept rates down for young drivers, sparked opposition throughout the province, beginning with regional protests and followed by a huge march and rally at the
Show moreThe newly-elected Social Credit government's announcement in January, 1976 that it would increase ICBC rates for auto insurance by 2X to 3X existing rates, and eliminate provisions that kept rates down for young drivers, sparked opposition throughout the province, beginning with regional protests and followed by a huge march and rally at the Legislature February 13 and a Lower Mainland protest that filled the PNE Agrodome February 1. Pat McGeer was the provincial cabinet minister responsible for ICBC.
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1976-02-13
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ICBC protest rally - Victoria legislature
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The newly-elected Social Credit government's announcement in January, 1976 that it would increase ICBC rates for auto insurance by 2X to 3X existing rates, and eliminate provisions that kept rates down for young drivers, sparked opposition throughout the province, beginning with regional protests and followed by a huge march and rally at the
Show moreThe newly-elected Social Credit government's announcement in January, 1976 that it would increase ICBC rates for auto insurance by 2X to 3X existing rates, and eliminate provisions that kept rates down for young drivers, sparked opposition throughout the province, beginning with regional protests and followed by a huge march and rally at the Legislature February 13 and a Lower Mainland protest that filled the PNE Agrodome February 1. Pat McGeer was the provincial cabinet minister responsible for ICBC.
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1976-02-13
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Lower Mainland Budget Coalition rally against the budget
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Lower Mainland Budget Coalition march and rally drew 35,000 people into downtown Vancouver streets in opposition to the Social Credit government's twenty-six pieces of legislation stripping away labour rights and cut social programs. Photograph shows Lower Mainland Budget Coalition chair George Hewison at the microphone.
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1983-07-23
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CFU protest WCB offices
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Canadian Farmworkers Union members join B.C. Government Employees Union members at protest outside Workers Compensation Board offices aimed at Labour Minister Bob McClelland and the Social Credit government. The minister had earlier overruled a WCB decision that would have provided WCB protection for farmworkers. Photograph shows CFU president Raj
Show moreCanadian Farmworkers Union members join B.C. Government Employees Union members at protest outside Workers Compensation Board offices aimed at Labour Minister Bob McClelland and the Social Credit government. The minister had earlier overruled a WCB decision that would have provided WCB protection for farmworkers. Photograph shows CFU president Raj Chouhan speaking.
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1983-08-10
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