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Title: Longshoremen support picket by Callistratus crew members; Picket line around Callistratus at Ballantyne Pier OC 15
Date: 1981-10-23
Collection: Fisherman Publishing Society Photographs

Title: Elk Falls CEP pickets
Description: Photograph shows five CEP (Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union members picketing.
Date: 1997-11
Collection: Fisherman Publishing Society Photographs

Title: Picketers Rogers re: lockout
Description: Photograph shows three men from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local 213 locked out by Rogers Cable.
Date: 1993-11
Collection: Fisherman Publishing Society Photographs

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

Title: IBEW [International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers] gas workers walkout over contract, Oct 5
Date: 1983-10-05

Title: IBEW [International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers] gas workers walkout over contract, Oct 5
Date: 1983-10-05

Title: Building trades pickets on Pennyfarthing - Harbor Cove site
Description: Building Trades workers continue protest against J.C. Kerkhoff and Sons Ltd. after union company, Stevenson Construction, the original contractor slated to build the Pennyfarthing development, transferred the building contract to anti-union Kerkhoff.
Date: 1984-03-05

Title: Building trades pickets on Pennyfarthing - Harbor Cove site
Description: Building Trades workers continue protest against J.C. Kerkhoff and Sons Ltd. after union company, Stevenson Construction, the original contractor slated to build the Pennyfarthing development, transferred the building contract to anti-union Kerkhoff.
Date: 1984-03-05

Title: CUPW [Canadian Union of Postal Workers] pickets at Vancouver main post office
Description: Postal workers picket outside Canada Post's main depot in Vancouver during a strike against privatization measures and the use of low-wage workers at the crown corporation. Violence from private security firms marred the strike, as did the use of scab labour. The union warned of the increased use of superboxes in new housing developments as a
Show morePostal workers picket outside Canada Post's main depot in Vancouver during a strike against privatization measures and the use of low-wage workers at the crown corporation. Violence from private security firms marred the strike, as did the use of scab labour. The union warned of the increased use of superboxes in new housing developments as a threat to home delivery, prescient warnings given the Harper government's installation of community mailboxes starting in 2014.
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Date: 1991-08-27

Title: Dandelions leaders Jim Dougan, Jim Young, picket at CLRA [Construction Labour Relations Association] office
Description: Formed by unemployed Building Trades workers, the Dandelions picketed the offices of the Construction Labour Relations Association May 9 to support B.C. Building Trades unions in their efforts to push back CLRA demands for concessions. The employers' association was completing a lockout vote among its members, having already issued notice to unions
Show moreFormed by unemployed Building Trades workers, the Dandelions picketed the offices of the Construction Labour Relations Association May 9 to support B.C. Building Trades unions in their efforts to push back CLRA demands for concessions. The employers' association was completing a lockout vote among its members, having already issued notice to unions that unless new contracts incorporating CLRA cuts were signed, collective agreements could be terminated April 30 and new contracts imposed unilaterally. Photograph shows Dandelion activist Jim Young speaking, centre.
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Date: 1986-05-09

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

Title: Woodward's pickets - downtown - Sept. 6/74
Description: Retail Clerks union members set up pickets outside Woodward's Furniture Fair retail warehouse in a bid for a first contract. An agreement was signed just 12 hours after pickets went up, providing wage increases and a first union certification at the Woodward's chain.
Date: 1974-09-06

Title: Woodward's pickets - downtown - Sept. 6/74
Description: Retail Clerks union members set up pickets outside Woodward's Furniture Fair retail warehouse in a bid for a first contract. An agreement was signed just 12 hours after pickets went up, providing wage increases and a first union certification at the Woodward's chain.
Date: 1974-09-06

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

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

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