Pickets at Citation Cabinets

Members of Carpenters shop Local 1928 continue strike against Citation Cabinets despite firings of 130 workers and efforts by the company to obtain court enforcement of an Industrial Relations Commission ruling that the strike and picket line were illegal. B.C. Supreme Court Justice William Trainor denied an order upholding the IRC but the Attorney-General and the company appealed his ruling to the B.C. Court of Appeal, which struck down Trainor's ruling and ruled that strikers were in contempt of court for continuing to picket. However, the IRC ruled later that there was not, in fact, a collective agreement in place, opening the door for the local to conduct another strike vote and continue picketing.