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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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Some of Trident defendants at Metro Media house Jan. 25/79, day before sentencing
Year: 1979
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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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CUPW [Canadian Union of Postal Workers] demonstration outside Vancouver post office, on national protest
Year: 1979
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CUPW [Canadian Union of Postal Workers] demonstration outside Vancouver post office, on national protest
Year: 1979
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TWU [Telecommunication Workers Union] demonstration outside B.C. Labor Relations Board, Vancouver
Year: 1978
Description: Some 600 Telecommunications Workers Union members demonstrate outside the offices of the Canada Labour Relations Board offices in Vancouver to protest B.C. Telephone Company's stalling on a return to work following completion of voting on the proposed collective agreement, which was based on the conciliator's report. The union announced members would vote on the proposed contract and if it was ratified members would return to their jobs with or without a negotiated back to work agreement. The…
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Pacific Press pickets
Year: 1979
Description: Vancouver New Westminster Newspaper Guild members picket the Pacific Press building in Vancouver as the strike against the company entered its sixth month. Job security was the critical issue, with printing pressmen seeking to maintain staffing levels on the paper's presses.
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Pacific Press pickets
Year: 1979
Description: Vancouver New Westminster Newspaper Guild members picket the Pacific Press building in Vancouver as the strike against the company entered its sixth month. Job security was the critical issue, with printing pressmen seeking to maintain staffing levels on the paper's presses.
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Adams Labs strike
Year: 1979
Description: Retail-Wholesale Union picket captain Al Valente on picket line outside Adams Lab in Surrey, where picket line incidents, an attack on strikers and jail sentences for strikers, prompted action by the B.C. Federation of Labour to support strikers in their efforts to win union recognition and a first contract.
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Canadians for Democracy in Chile protest at consulate against May Day arrests
Year: 1981
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BC Peace Council demonstration against Reagan Administration N [nuclear]-bomb decision
Year: 1981
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BC Peace Council demonstration against Reagan Administration N [nuclear]-bomb decision
Year: 1981
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Demonstration by tenants outside landlord Luigi Aquilini's house, Slocan Street, Vancouver
Year: 1981
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