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Title: Striking crew signs on Chavez, at Domtar Construction dock, Surrey
Description: Crew members aboard the flag of convenience vessel Chavez, which brought its load of gypsum to the Surrey docks, occupied the ship and posted a sign along the gangway in an effort to get $200,00 in wages owed to them and an International Transport Workers Federation agreement. Local ITWF representatives Tom McGrath and Gerry McCullough were later
Show moreCrew members aboard the flag of convenience vessel Chavez, which brought its load of gypsum to the Surrey docks, occupied the ship and posted a sign along the gangway in an effort to get $200,00 in wages owed to them and an International Transport Workers Federation agreement. Local ITWF representatives Tom McGrath and Gerry McCullough were later successful in winning back wages for them.
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Date: 1980-03-31

Title: Striking crew signs on Chavez, at Domtar Construction dock, Surrey
Description: Crew members aboard the flag of convenience vessel Chavez, which brought its load of gypsum to the Surrey docks, occupied the ship and posted a sign along the gangway in an effort to get $200,00 in wages owed to them and an International Transport Workers Federation agreement. Local ITWF representatives Tom McGrath and Gerry McCullough were later
Show moreCrew members aboard the flag of convenience vessel Chavez, which brought its load of gypsum to the Surrey docks, occupied the ship and posted a sign along the gangway in an effort to get $200,00 in wages owed to them and an International Transport Workers Federation agreement. Local ITWF representatives Tom McGrath and Gerry McCullough were later successful in winning back wages for them.
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Date: 1980-03-31

Title: Canadians for Democracy in Chile picket at Chilean ship, Centennial Pier
Date: 1983-01-26

Title: Canadians for Democracy in Chile picket at Chilean ship, Centennial Pier
Date: 1983-01-26

Title: Canadians for Democracy in Chile picket at Chilean ship, Centennial Pier
Date: 1983-01-26

Title: West Coast Oil Ports Inquiry - Steveston Buddhist Church
Description: Fraser River gillnet fisherman Edgar Birch, a member of the environmental committee of the United Fisherman and Allied Workers Union, speaking to Oil Ports Inquiry hearing in Steveston.
Date: 1977-10-27

Title: West Coast Oil Ports Inquiry - Steveston Buddhist Church
Description: Photograph shows former United Fisherman and Allied Workers Union President Steve Stavenes at Oil Ports Inquiry hearing.
Date: 1977-10-27

Title: Canadians for Democracy in Chile picket at Chilean ship, Centennial Pier
Date: 1983-01-26

Title: Trade union picket on South African ship, Centerm Pier
Description: Trade unionists picket the South African vessel Nedloyd Kembla at Centerm on Vancouver's waterfront to block offloading of the ship's South African cargo. The cargo was held up for four days before an injunction forced longshoremen to unload.
Date: 1986-03-20

Title: Trade union picket on South African ship, Centerm Pier
Description: B.C. Federation of Labour secretary treasurer Cliff Andstein listens as a court officer reads an injunction ordering trade union ;pickets to cease and desist from blocking the unloading of the South African vessel Nedlloyd Kembla at Centerm in Vancouver. The injunction came after pickets had blocked unloading for four days.
Date: 1986-03-20

Title: Trade union picket on South African ship, Centerm Pier
Description: Trade unionists picket the South African vessel Nedloyd Kembla at Centerm on Vancouver's waterfront to block offloading of the ship's South African cargo. The cargo was held up for four days before an injunction forced longshoremen to unload.
Date: 1986-03-20

Title: Marine workers demo re: Polar 8 contract outside first ministers' meeting, Hotel Vancouver
Description: Rally by members of Marineworkers and Boilermakers Industrial Union members outside Canadian First Ministers' conference Nov. 20 at Hotel Vancouver demanding that federal government award Polar 8 icebreaker contract to Versatile Pacific Shipyard in B.C., the low bidder on the project.
Date: 1986-11-20

Title: Marine workers demo re: Polar 8 contract outside first ministers' meeting, Hotel Vancouver
Description: Rally by members of Marineworkers and Boilermakers Industrial Union members outside Canadian First Ministers' conference Nov. 20 at Hotel Vancouver demanding that federal government award Polar 8 icebreaker contract to Versatile Pacific Shipyard in B.C., the low bidder on the project.
Date: 1986-11-20

Title: Marine workers demo re: Polar 8 contract outside first ministers' meeting, Hotel Vancouver
Description: Rally by members of Marineworkers and Boilermakers Industrial Union members outside Canadian First Ministers' conference Nov. 20 at Hotel Vancouver demanding that federal government award Polar 8 icebreaker contract to Versatile Pacific Shipyard in B.C., the low bidder on the project.
Date: 1986-11-20

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