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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: Community rally (Grandview Park) in support of Skyway [Luggage] strikers
Description: Local residents and unionists take part in community rally organized by B.C. Federation of Labour in support of striking Skyway Luggage workers on strike since April 5 and facing contempt of court charges for picketing plant in defiance of injunctions. The workers eventually signed an agreement in August, after their union local amalgamated with
Show moreLocal residents and unionists take part in community rally organized by B.C. Federation of Labour in support of striking Skyway Luggage workers on strike since April 5 and facing contempt of court charges for picketing plant in defiance of injunctions. The workers eventually signed an agreement in August, after their union local amalgamated with the Teamsters. The company closed the Vancouver manufacturing plant permanently in December.
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Date: 1976-06-26

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: NUPGE [National Union of Public and General Employees] press conference re: BCGEU [B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union] - Operation Solidarity strike
Description: National Union of Provincial Government Employees president John Fryer (standing) pledges $3 million to the BCGEU strike fund at a news conference at BCGEU headquarters. The announcement followed a meeting of provincial government employees' unions from across Canada, many of them part of the National Union of Provincial Government Employees, to
Show moreNational Union of Provincial Government Employees president John Fryer (standing) pledges $3 million to the BCGEU strike fund at a news conference at BCGEU headquarters. The announcement followed a meeting of provincial government employees' unions from across Canada, many of them part of the National Union of Provincial Government Employees, to pledge full support to the BCGEU in its campaign and strike against Bill 3, the contentious Public Sector Restraint Act, which would fire government employees and strip numerous clauses from their collective agreement.
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Date: 1983-11-05

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

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: NHB [National Harbours Board] pickets (ILWU [International Longshore and Warehouse Union])
Date: 1978-08-28

Title: NHB [National Harbours Board] pickets (ILWU [International Longshore and Warehouse Union])
Date: 1978-08-28

Title: Community rally (Grandview Park) in support of Skyway [Luggage] strikers
Description: Local residents and unionists take part in community rally organized by B.C. Federation of Labour in support of striking Skyway Luggage workers on strike for 10 weeks and facing contempt of court charges for picketing plant in defiance of injunctions. The workers eventually signed an agreement in August, after their union local amalgamated with the
Show moreLocal residents and unionists take part in community rally organized by B.C. Federation of Labour in support of striking Skyway Luggage workers on strike for 10 weeks and facing contempt of court charges for picketing plant in defiance of injunctions. The workers eventually signed an agreement in August, after their union local amalgamated with the Teamsters. The company closed the Vancouver manufacturing plant permanently in December.
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Date: 1976-06-26

Title: Steelworkers strikers at one of 39 strike-locked plants, Vancouver
Description: Photograph shows strikers at Willock Industries, one of thirty-nine fabricating shops in the Lower Mainland where workers were either on strike or locked out as employer group Metal Industries Association held fast to federal wage control guidelines in bargaining.
Date: 1977-04-05

Title: Hotel Vancouver strike
Description: Unionists mount mass picket of 500 people outside Hotel Vancouver in response to tactics by management company Hilton which refused to table a wage offer during collective bargaining and hired strikebreakers through federal Manpower offices.
Date: 1977-06-13

Title: Hotel Vancouver strike
Description: Unionists mount mass picket of 500 people outside Hotel Vancouver in response to tactics by management company Hilton which refused to table a wage offer during collective bargaining and hired strikebreakers through federal Manpower offices.
Date: 1977-06-13

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