Muckamuck strike opening

Aboriginal workers, newly-organized into the Service, Office and Retail Workers of Canada (SORWUC) went on strike against the Muckamuck Restaurant, the city's first restaurant serving Northwest Coast aboriginal cuisine, demanding wage increases and reinstatement of workers fired for union activity. Workers maintained the picket line for three years while owner kept the restaurant operating with strikebreakers. After a further two years, the Labour Relations Board ordered owners to pay remedies to the workers for the employer's action during the lengthy dispute, but they closed the doors and left the country without complying. Photo shows union representative Christina Price on the picket line.