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Fed [British Columbia Federation of Labour] delegates march to Eaton's on J.P. Stevens boycott

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Year: 1978
Description: B.C. Federation of Labour convention delegates march to Eaton's downtown store to highlight boycott of products made by J.P. Stevens, which flouted U.S. labour laws in keeping unions out of its U.S. plants.
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Fed [British Columbia Federation of Labour] delegates march to Eaton's on J.P. Stevens boycott

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Year: 1978
Description: B.C. Federation of Labour convention delegates march to Eaton's downtown store to highlight boycott of products made by J.P. Stevens, which flouted U.S. labour laws in keeping unions out of its U.S. plants.
Type: Still Image

Fed [British Columbia Federation of Labour] delegates march to Eaton's on J.P. Stevens boycott

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Year: 1978
Description: B.C. Federation of Labour convention delegates march to Eaton's downtown store to highlight boycott of products made by J.P. Stevens, which flouted U.S. labour laws in keeping unions out of its U.S. plants.
Type: Still Image

Chile boycott week

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Year: 1979
Description: Sign outside the Lutheran Campus Centre at UBC, where students had launched their own hunger strike in solidarity with the hunger strike in Chile demanding information about the disappeared. The strikes were ended September 12, after ten days when the Pinochet regime agreed to release the bodies of those found murdered at the abandoned mine shaft at Lonquen, Chile. The discovery of the mass grave at Lonquen was the subject of Isabel Allende's novel Of Love and Shadows.
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Cesar Chavez with CFU [Canadian Farmworkers Union], CLC [Canadian Labour Congress], B.C. Fed [British Columbia Federation of Labour] at CFU office re: grape boycott

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Year: 1985
Description: With BC Federation of Labour president Art Kube (right) Father Jim Roberts and Canadian Farmworkers Union secretary-treasurer Sarwan Boal (left) beside him, United Farm Workers president Cesar Chavez announces launch of renewed California grape boycott in Canada. The boycott followed growers' action in cancelling UFW contracts and was also aimed at highlighting growers' use of toxic pesticide in both the U.S. and Canada.
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Cesar Chavez with CFU [Canadian Farmworkers Union], CLC [Canadian Labour Congress], B.C. Fed [British Columbia Federation of Labour] at CFU office re: grape boycott

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Year: 1985
Description: With Canadian Labour Congress director of organization Len Ruel (left) and Canadian Farmworkers Union secretary-treasurer Sarwan Boal beside him, United Farm Workers president Cesar Chavez announces launch of renewed California grape boycott in Canada. The boycott followed growers' action in cancelling UFW contracts and was also aimed at highlighting growers' use of toxic pesticide in both the U.S. and Canada.
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Eaton's boycott, Pacific Centre

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Year: 1984
Description: Picketers leaflet Eaton's store in downtown Vancouver during Canadian Labour Congress boycott launched on behalf of 1,500 striking workers of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union on strike at six Ontario stores.
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Eaton's boycott, Pacific Centre

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Year: 1984
Description: Picketers leaflet Eaton's store in downtown Vancouver during Canadian Labour Congress boycott launched on behalf of 1,500 striking workers of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union on strike at six Ontario stores.
Type: Still Image

Eaton's boycott, Pacific Centre

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Year: 1984
Description: Picketers leaflet Eaton's store in downtown Vancouver during Canadian Labour Congress boycott launched on behalf of 1,500 striking workers of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union on strike at six Ontario stores.
Type: Still Image

Eaton's boycott

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Year: 1984
Description: Picketers leaflet Eaton's store in downtown Vancouver during Canadian Labour Congress boycott launched on behalf of 1,500 striking workers of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union on strike at six Ontario stores.
Type: Still Image

Concerned Citizens Coalition Safeway picket

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Year: 1987
Description: Local Vancouver group Concerned Citizens Coalition pickets Nanaimo Street Safeway store in east Vancouver, urging consumers to boycott the chain to protest Safeway's decision to close this location and open a new store in a mall built by notorious anti-union employer, J.C. Kerkhoff.
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Concerned Citizens Coalition Safeway picket

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Year: 1987
Description: Local Vancouver group Concerned Citizens Coalition pickets Nanaimo Street Safeway store in east Vancouver, urging consumers to boycott the chain to protest Safeway's decision to close this location and open a new store in a mall built by notorious anti-union employer, J.C. Kerkhoff.
Type: Still Image