UBC economists who formed the BC Economic Policy Institute in 1983 in response to the Social Credit government's contentious budget issue papers challenging the economic validity of the government's restraint policies. Right to left, Robert Evans, William Schworm, Gideon Rosenbluth, David Donaldson.
Former Chicago Seven activist and husband to film actor Jane Fonda, Tom Hayden speaks to rally at Peace Arch Park organized by Indochina Peace Campaign promoting peace in Indochina,
Grainworkers set up pickets outside United Grain Growers Elevators on Vancouver's waterfront as company locked them out Aug. 26. Although the Perry Report, prepared by a federal conciliator in the dispute, was accepted by the Grain Workers Union, it was rejected by the companies.
6,000 Building Trades workers file into Pacific Coliseum for rally during Day of Defiance May 23 when Trades shut down construction jobs to protest amendments to Labour Code and employer efforts to impose non-union conditions throughout the industry.
Mural artist Fraser Wilson (right) and Maritime Labour Centre president Dan Cole with Vancouver mayor Mike Harcourt (left) and art restorer Ferdinand Petrov at event marking the beginning of remounting of labour mural, formerly on wall of Marineworkers and Boilermakers Hall, at Maritime Labour Centre Oct. 30.