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Title: [Man and woman at the UFAWU (United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union) fishermens bargaining rights protest at the B.C. legislature]
Date: 1980
Collection: Fisherman Publishing Society Photographs

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: Fin Donnelly Swim wind-up
Date: 1995-09-24
Collection: Fisherman Publishing Society Photographs

Title: Prince Rupert meetings
Description: Photograph shows a group of men with "Salmon for Canada" bumper stickers.
Date: 1997-07
Collection: Fisherman Publishing Society Photographs

Title: [Man speaking at a free trade demonstration]
Date: 1989
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] job action, rally at Crab Park re: government position on GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade] ruling - Cliff Atleo, Native Brotherhood
Description: Some 2,000 shore plant workers, members of the UFAWU, walked off the job coastwide and rallied to protest federal government capitulation to U.S. Interests. At issue was the feds dropping a requirement that herring and several salmon species caught in BC waters be processed -- essentially gutted -- at B.C. plants before export. That decision
Show moreSome 2,000 shore plant workers, members of the UFAWU, walked off the job coastwide and rallied to protest federal government capitulation to U.S. Interests. At issue was the feds dropping a requirement that herring and several salmon species caught in BC waters be processed -- essentially gutted -- at B.C. plants before export. That decision followed US complaints to the then world trade body, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Such decisions led to closure of the vast majority of B.C. fish processing plants. Cliff Atleo, executive secretary of the Native Brotherhood of BC, at mic.
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Date: 1989-05-03

Title: Shipyard workers at MP Chuck Cook's office re: Versatile [Pacific Shipyards] Polar 8
Description: 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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Date: 1988-04-15

Title: Carpenters protest at IRC [Industrial Relations Council] office re: BCED decertification
Description: Building Trades members protest Industrial Relations Council decision to allow large construction firm, BCE Development, to decertify. Labour was boycotting the IRC but trades were allowed a special exemption to appeal the ruling. The decertification of such a large firm was a sign of things to come. Colin Snell, secretary-treasurer of the B.C.
Show moreBuilding Trades members protest Industrial Relations Council decision to allow large construction firm, BCE Development, to decertify. Labour was boycotting the IRC but trades were allowed a special exemption to appeal the ruling. The decertification of such a large firm was a sign of things to come. Colin Snell, secretary-treasurer of the B.C. Provincial Council of Carpenters, at right.
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Date: 1988-04-19

Title: Lytton, Mount Currie bands at BCFP [British Columbia Forest Products Limited] annual general meeting re: Stein [Valley] logging - Chief Leonard Andrew, Mount Currie Band
Date: 1988-04-21

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: Anti-free trade cavalcade
Description: John Starcevic (front car) and Richard Saunders (centre) join dozens of cars lined up at the Maritime Labour Centre June 10 to take part in a car cavalcade to Stanley Park where 350 people joined a national protest against the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. The event was organized by the Coalition Against "Free" Trade.
Date: 1988-06-12

Title: Ad Hoc Coalition Against Free Trade rally at Pat Carney's office
Date: 1987-10-02

Title: Canadian Farmworkers rally against UI [unemployment insurance] cuts, with CFU president Sarwan Boal
Description: More than 1,000 B.C. farmworkers march through Vancouver to protest changes to Unemployment Insurance that negatively affected farmworkers. Among those were lengthening the waiting period for benefits which, warned the Canadian Farmworkers Union, could force many of the Fraser Valley's farmworkers onto welfare. Father Jim Roberts at mic.
Date: 1989-05-06

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: Powell River ferry rate protest
Description: Residents in Powell River and Langdale staged major protests as the Social Credit government announced a doubling of ferry rates on Mainland-Langdale and Vancouver Island-Sechelt Peninsula routes and the cancellation of commuter cards on the runs.
Date: 1976-05-15

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

Title: Farmworkers Union rally and march at Clearbrook against labor contractor system
Description: Some 200 members of the Canadian Farmworkers Union march beside growers' fields in Clearbrook towards an organizing rally in a nearby park.
Date: 1980-07-12

Title: Truckers protest in Abbotsford
Description: Teamster Local 213 truckers and independent owner-operators stage protest convoy from Abbotsford to Surrey in a campaign to stop trucking companies from whipsawing drivers to push wage rates down.
Date: 1937-03-20

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