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Opening of UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union] strike, Steveston - B.C. Packers plant

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Year: 1984
Description: Technological change, including introduction of fish washing machines, was an issue in the four- day strike. The two-year contract that was signed provided a joint union-management process to study tech change.
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Opening of UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union] strike, Steveston - B.C. Packers plant

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Year: 1984
Description: United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union president Jack Nichol is shown talking to workers outside B.C. Packers Imperial plant in Steveston following walkout.
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UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] job action, rally at Crab Park re: government position on GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade] ruling

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Year: 1989
Description: Some 2,000 shore plant workers, members of the UFAWU, walked off the job coastwide and rallied to protest federal government capitulation to U.S. Interests. At issue was the feds dropping a requirement that herring and several salmon species caught in BC waters be processed -- essentially gutted -- at B.C. plants before export. That decision followed US complaints to the then world trade body, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Such decisions led to closure of the vast majority of B.C…
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UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] job action, rally at Crab Park re: government position on GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade] ruling

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Year: 1989
Description: Some 2,000 shore plant workers, members of the UFAWU, walked off the job coastwide and rallied to protest federal government capitulation to U.S. Interests. At issue was the feds dropping a requirement that herring and several salmon species caught in BC waters be processed -- essentially gutted -- at B.C. plants before export. That decision followed US complaints to the then world trade body, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Such decisions led to closure of the vast majority of B.C…
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UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] job action, rally at Crab Park re: government position on GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade] ruling

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Year: 1989
Description: Some 2,000 shore plant workers, mostly members of the UFAWU, walked off the job coastwide and rallied to protest federal government capitulation to U.S. Interests. At issue was the feds dropping a requirement that herring and several salmon spieces caught in BC waters be processed -- essentially gutted -- at BC plants, before export. That decision followed US complaints to the then world trade body, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Such decisions led to closure of the vast majority…
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UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] job action, rally at Crab Park re: government position on GATT [General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade] ruling

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Year: 1989
Description: Some 2,000 shore plant workers, members of the UFAWU, walked off the job coastwide and rallied to protest federal government capitulation to U.S. Interests. At issue was the feds dropping a requirement that herring and several salmon species caught in BC waters be processed -- essentially gutted -- at B.C. plants before export. That decision followed US complaints to the then world trade body, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Such decisions led to closure of the vast majority of B.C…
Type: Still Image