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Title: COPE [Committee of Progressive Electors] demonstration, Oct. 5, Broadway & Main
Date: 1973-10-05

Title: B.C. Economic Policy Institute press conference, UBC [University of British Columbia]
Description: 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.
Date: 1984-05-07

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: Rally of 80,000 at Sunset Beach after Walk for Peace - Jim Foulks, Eugene Carroll
Date: 1983-04-23

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: SACTU [South African Congress of Trade Unions] 35th anniversary celebration, Maritime Centre with Peter Mahlangu - Jack Nichol, President, UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union]
Date: 1990-03-05

Title: Coalition Against Free Trade rally outside Noranda against GST, corporate handouts
Date: 1990-02-14

Title: [Jane] Fonda, [Tom] Hayden, [David] Harris, Peace Arch rally
Description: 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,
Date: 1974-11-16

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: Grain workers pickets UGG [United Grain Growers Limited]
Description: 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.
Date: 1974-08-26