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Title: BC Fed [British Columbia Federation of Labour] press conference after all-union meeting
Date: 1984-05-16

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: Building trades pickets at Metrotown Hyundai re: boycott
Description: Building Trades workers picket Hyundai car dealership at Metrotown in Burnaby to protest the South Korean corporation's partnership with notorious anti-union firm JC Kerkhoff. Also targeted was Hyundai's treatment of its workers in Korea. Hyundai and Kerkhoff were later to provide the pile-driving on the Skytrain bridge over the Fraser River,
Show moreBuilding Trades workers picket Hyundai car dealership at Metrotown in Burnaby to protest the South Korean corporation's partnership with notorious anti-union firm JC Kerkhoff. Also targeted was Hyundai's treatment of its workers in Korea. Hyundai and Kerkhoff were later to provide the pile-driving on the Skytrain bridge over the Fraser River, ending the dominance of the Carpenters Union in that field and presaging the decimation of union labour in construction.
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Date: 1988-03-19

Title: Press conference by occupiers of cabinet offices
Description: Some 87 people, including trade unionists, community activists, tenants' rights activists and representatives of faith organizations, occupied the provincial cabinet offices in Vancouver for 27 hours to take the demand raised throughout the province for withdrawal of the 26 pieces of legislation directly to the government. They emerged to a
Show moreSome 87 people, including trade unionists, community activists, tenants' rights activists and representatives of faith organizations, occupied the provincial cabinet offices in Vancouver for 27 hours to take the demand raised throughout the province for withdrawal of the 26 pieces of legislation directly to the government. They emerged to a tumultuous welcome from more than 2,000 people who had been staging a demonstration against staff and service cutbacks at the Ministry of Human Resources several blocks away. Photo shows Provincial Council of Carpenters secretary Lorne Robson (right) and Hospital Employees Union president Bill MacDonald leading the group out of the building.
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Date: 1983-09-16

Title: Stop the subs rally, Robson Square with EAR [End the Arms Race], church groups
Date: 1988-06-28

Title: CAIMAW [Canadian Association of Industrial, Mechanical and Allied Workers] pickets at White Spot
Description: Canadian Association of Industrial, Mechanical and Allied Workers (CAIMAW) picket White Spot restaurant at 13th and Cambie in Vancouver Aug. 29, 1988, two days after the union launched a strike against company concessions. Formerly the Food and Service Workers Union, the union had begun merger talks with CAIMAW the year before the 1988 contract
Show moreCanadian Association of Industrial, Mechanical and Allied Workers (CAIMAW) picket White Spot restaurant at 13th and Cambie in Vancouver Aug. 29, 1988, two days after the union launched a strike against company concessions. Formerly the Food and Service Workers Union, the union had begun merger talks with CAIMAW the year before the 1988 contract expiry date in anticipation of what proved to be a difficult dispute. The strike lasted 10.5 weeks but resulted in gains for restaurant employees, including shifts by seniority, setting a pattern for much of the service sector.
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Date: 1988-08-29

Title: Public meeting, Carlos Elvira
Description: Public meeting in Vancouver's Ironworkers Hall for Carlos Elvira, (centre) representative of Spanish underground union movement Workers Commissions, who spent 23 years in Franco prison. With him is his interpreter Iobil Alonso (right) and meeting chair, Vancouver surgeon Alan Inglis.
Date: 1973-04-13

Title: YCL [Young Communist League?], YND [Young New Democrats?], B.C. SoF, unemployed demonstration at PNE parade reviewing stand
Date: 1977-08-20

Title: CUPW [Canadian Union of Postal Workers] picket lines at main Vancouver post office with scab buses
Description: Members of CUPW and other unions picket the main post office in Vancouver on the first day of the CUPW national strike, called when the federal government introduced back-to-work legislation Oct. 8 that provided for appointment of a mediator with potential authority to impose a settlement. Picketing continued for several days while the legislation
Show moreMembers of CUPW and other unions picket the main post office in Vancouver on the first day of the CUPW national strike, called when the federal government introduced back-to-work legislation Oct. 8 that provided for appointment of a mediator with potential authority to impose a settlement. Picketing continued for several days while the legislation was before Parliament as Canada Post stepped up its use of strikebreakers.
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Date: 1987-10-10

Title: Rally at U.S. consulate in opposition to increased U.S. support for contras in Nicaragua and military dictatorship in El Salvador.
Date: 1984-05-26

Title: IWA [International Woodworkers of America]-Canada strikers at Leyland Industries
Description: IWA Canada members maintain a small picket at Leyland Industries in Pitt Meadows, under the onerous provisions of Bill 19. The workers, low-wage earners, had unionized the preceding summer but had been on the picket line since September following a strong strike mandate. Bill 19 limited pickets to four and forbade impeding company vehicles and
Show moreIWA Canada members maintain a small picket at Leyland Industries in Pitt Meadows, under the onerous provisions of Bill 19. The workers, low-wage earners, had unionized the preceding summer but had been on the picket line since September following a strong strike mandate. Bill 19 limited pickets to four and forbade impeding company vehicles and personnel. Leyland, a plastic bottle manufacturer, had also recruited scab labour from outside the province. During negotiations for a first collective agreement the company demanded language that "would have eliminated the union presence in the plant," said a union official.
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Date: 1988-12-09

Simon Fraser University
Engaging the World