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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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CUPW [Canadian Union of Postal Workers] pickets outside Vancouver post office after strikebreaking legislation passed
Year: 1978
Type: Still Image
Some of Trident defendants at Metro Media house Jan. 25/79, day before sentencing
Year: 1979
Type: Still Image
Re-opening of Combines hearings
Year: 1979
Description: Federal officers guard the hearing room door in the Hotel Vancouver as the Combines Branch renews investigation of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers 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…
Type: Still Image
CAMWRU [Canadian Allied Manufacturers, Wholesale, Retail Union] members, picket at Nabob
Year: 1981
Description: CAMWRU members of strike at Nabob Foods warehouse in Burnaby where professional strikebreakers were hired by the company to drive their trucks at speed through the picket line to transport goods declared hot by the B.C. Federation of Labour. Several picketers were injured after being hit and union participants in an earlier strike at Endako Mines identified two of the drivers as the same men who had carried molybdenum across picket lines during that bitter dispute.
Type: Still Image
IWA [International Woodworkers of America] pickets at White Pine Mill
Year: 1981
Description: IWA Local 1-217 pickets at the White Pine mill in Vancouver walk the line as strike action by the Canadian Paperworkers Union on July 20, the Independent Pulp Paper and Woodworkers of Canada on July 14 and the IWA on July 13 put the entire woodworking industry in the province behind picket lines. It marked the first time in the history of the province that both pulp and woodworkers had been on strike province-wide at the same time.
Type: Still Image
IWA [International Woodworkers of America] pickets, strike headquarters
Year: 1981
Description: IWA Local 1-363 pickets at the union's strike headquarters in Campbell River as strike action by the Canadian Paperworkers Union on July 20, the Independent Pulp Paper and Woodworkers of Canada on July 14 and the IWA on July 13 put the entire woodworking industry in the province behind picket lines. It marked the first time in the history of the province that both pulp and woodworkers had been on strike province-wide at the same time. Left to right: Gordon Cockburn, John Bodner, Nick Chernoff,…
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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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Canada Packers pickets, Vancouver
Year: 1978
Description: Members of the Canadian Food and Allied Workers picket Terminal Avenue in Vancouver during Canada-wide lockout of the union as Canada Packers, Swifts and other packing houses sought to impose inferior industry-wide contract.
Type: Still Image
Farmworkers Union rally and march at Clearbrook against labor contractor system
Year: 1980
Description: Some 200 members of the Canadian Farmworkers Union march beside growers' fields in Clearbrook towards an organizing rally in a nearby park.
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UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] with Nicaraguan Ministry of Fisheries delegation, July 12-18/80
Year: 1980
Type: Still Image
