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UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] pickets, Canadian Fish, Campbell Avenue plant
Year: 1978
Description: UFAWU shoreworkers picket at Canadian Fish Home plant in support of four-day tendermen's strike that was successful in winning a pace-setting agreement, the first since the expiry of wage controls.
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UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] pickets, Canadian Fish, Campbell Avenue plant
Year: 1978
Description: UFAWU shoreworkers picket at Campbell Save dock in support of four-day tendermen's strike that was successful in winning a pace-setting agreement, the first since the expiry of wage controls.
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Labour folksinger Tom Hawken in concert
Year: 1979
Description: Labour folksinger Tom Hawken performing at concert at Plaza 500 Ballroom marking 30th anniversary of B.C. Peace Council.
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Labour folksinger Tom Hawken in concert
Year: 1979
Description: Labour folksinger Tom Hawken performing at concert at Plaza 500 Ballroom marking 30th anniversary of B.C. Peace Council.
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UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] rally protesting impending fisheries treaty with U.S.
Year: 1978
Description: Photograph shows Secretary-Treasurer George Hewison speaking.
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UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] rally protesting impending fisheries treaty with U.S.
Year: 1978
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UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] protest on day of reopened Combines hearings, Vancouver Hotel
Year: 1979
Description: Members and supporters of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union demonstrate outside the hearings at the Hotel Vancouver to protest the Combines Branch renewed investigation of the union under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act following the adjournment of hearings two years earlier. Although presented as an investigation into the whole fishing industry, documents presented during hearings and court proceedings showed clearly that the UFAWU was the sole target of the probe. Union…
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UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] protest on day of reopened Combines hearings, Vancouver Hotel
Year: 1979
Description: Members and supporters of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union demonstrate outside the hearings at the Hotel Vancouver to protest the Combines Branch renewed investigation of the union under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act following the adjournment of hearings two years earlier. Although presented as an investigation into the whole fishing industry, documents presented during hearings and court proceedings showed clearly that the UFAWU was the sole target of the probe. Union…
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UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] protest on day of reopened Combines hearings, Vancouver Hotel
Year: 1979
Description: Members and supporters of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union demonstrate outside the hearings at the Hotel Vancouver to protest the Combines Branch renewed investigation of the union under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act following the adjournment of hearings two years earlier. Although presented as an investigation into the whole fishing industry, documents presented during hearings and court proceedings showed clearly that the UFAWU was the sole target of the probe. Union…
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Re-opening of Combines hearings
Year: 1979
Description: United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union president Jack Nichol heads into hearings at the Hotel Vancouver as the Combines Branch renews investigation of the union under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act following the adjournment of hearings two years earlier. Although presented as an investigation into the whole fishing industry, documents presented during hearings and court proceedings showed clearly that the UFAWU was the sole target of the probe. Union officers refused to answer questions…
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Re-opening of Combines hearings
Year: 1979
Description: United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union past president Homer Stevens (left), president Jack Nichol and secretary George Hewison confer outside the hearing room at the Hotel Vancouver as the Combines Branch renews investigation of the union under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act following the adjournment of hearings two years earlier. Although presented as an investigation into the whole fishing industry, documents presented during hearings and court proceedings showed clearly that the…
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Re-opening of Combines hearings
Year: 1979
Description: United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union president Jack Nichol talks to reporters outside the hearing room at the Hotel Vancouver as the Combines Branch renews investigation of the union under the Restrictive Trade Practices Act following the adjournment of hearings two years earlier. Although presented as an investigation into the whole fishing industry, documents presented during hearings and court proceedings showed clearly that the UFAWU was the sole target of the probe. Union officers…
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UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] protest meeting at UI regional headquarters
Year: 1981
Description: UFAWU fishermen's organizer John Radosevic (right) watches with Unemployment Insurance (UI) regional director Alan Cocksedge as more than 100 fishermen and shoreworkers jam regional UI offices to demand fair treatment from UI officials and an end to arbitrary UI commission rulings. The meeting won agreement from UI to review cases of fishing industry workers who had been unfairly disentitled and to take grievances over restrictive regulations directly to Employment Minister Lloyd Axworthy.
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UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] Seven (on trial for Combines charge) at provincial court on opening day of trial
Year: 1978
Description: Members of the UFAWU Seven outside the Provincial Courthouse in Vancouver just before their trial on charges of impeding an inquiry was set to begin. Left to right: UFAWU past president Homer Stevens, fisherman Dave McIntosh, president Jack Nichol, secretary George Hewison, tenderman Ken Robinson, fisherman Walter Tickson, and UFAWU welfare director Bert Ogden. Documents released at trial revealed that the inquiry by the Combines Branch, begun originally in 1975, was initiated on behalf of six…
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