CAIMAW [Canadian Association of Industrial, Mechanical and Allied Workers] rally against Western Canada Steel, Southwest Marine Drive
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Members of CAIMAW Local 6 demonstrate outside Western Canada Steel in south Vancouver. The plant's new owners proposed major concessions in a five-year agreement; accept it, or we'll close the plant. Later the company, IPSCO Ltd., filed a letter with the Industrial Relations Council denying the offer and stating its intention to close the plant. Speakers at the rally, including a former plant manager and a Social Credit MLA, said the plant was viable and its removal would leave the province without a steel plant -- the only province without one west of New Brunswick, said an official with the Confederation of Canadian Unions. The plant was ultimately closed. Speaker is former plant manager Stuart Gilbertson.