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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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Vegetable growers demonstration [in] Cloverdale demanding income plan
Year: 1978
Description: Travelling in a convoy of tractors, 200 Fraser Valley vegetable farmers protest outside the provincial agricultural department office in Cloverdale, demanding that the province provide a meaningful income assurance program for vegetable farmers that would take into account the actual costs of production.
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Jean Claude Parrot at CUPW [Canadian Union of Postal Workers] rally, Vancouver courthouse, noon
Year: 1979
Description: Members of unions through the Lower Mainland took part in a rally in support of embattled Canadian Union of Postal Workers whose bargaining rights and right to strike had been stripped away by federal legislation. CUPW national president Jean-Claude Parrot, facing imprisonment, pending appeal, for refusing to order his members to return to work under federal back-to-work Bill C-8, spoke to the rally.
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B.C. Fed Labor [British Columbia Federation of Labour] rally to back TWU [Telecommunications Workers Union], at B.C. Tel building
Year: 1980
Description: Telecommunications Workers Union president Bill Clark addresses B.C. Federation of Labour rally at B.C. Tel headquarters in Burnaby to protest the company's labour relations record and to demand that the provincial government nationalize the telephone company and operate it as a public utility.
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BC Fed [British Columbia Federation of Labour] rally outside [William Farrell] Building
Year: 1981
Description: Telecommunications Workers Union president Bill Clark addresses a huge rally of 4,000 that filled the street outside B.C. Tel's William Farrell Building in downtown Vancouver as TWU members ended their occupation of the building. The occupation, set against the background of the company's refusal to endorse contract improvements recommended by conciliator Ed Peck, had begun spontaneously in Nanaimo February 3 when members were suspended for wearing a buttons promoting the union's Crown…
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CUPE [Canadian Union of Public Employees] - VMREU [Vancouver Municipal and Regional Employees Union] rally at Vancouver city hall during GVRD [Greater Vancouver Regional District] strike
Year: 1981
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NUPGE [National Union of Public and General Employees] train leaving for Nov. 21 CLC [Canadian Labour Congress] rally
Year: 1981
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March 30 Citizens' Lobby for Jobs- arena rally and march to legislature
Year: 1978
Description: Photograph shows George Johnston speaking to the crowd from the steps of the legislature.
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March 30 Citizens' Lobby for Jobs- arena rally and march to legislature
Year: 1978
Description: Photograph shows Harry Rankin speaking to the rally from the steps of the legislature.
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BCTO [B.C. Tenants' Organization] press conference
Year: 1974
Description: Photograph shows B.C.T.O. president Bruce Yorke talking to the media.
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ICBC protest rally - Victoria legislature
Year: 1976
Description: The newly-elected Social Credit government's announcement in January, 1976 that it would increase ICBC rates for auto insurance by 2X to 3X existing rates, and eliminate provisions that kept rates down for young drivers, sparked opposition throughout the province, beginning with regional protests and followed by a huge march and rally at the Legislature February 13 and a Lower Mainland protest that filled the PNE Agrodome February 1. Pat McGeer was the provincial cabinet minister responsible…
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ICBC protest rally - Victoria legislature
Year: 1976
Description: The newly-elected Social Credit government's announcement in January, 1976 that it would increase ICBC rates for auto insurance by 2X to 3X existing rates, and eliminate provisions that kept rates down for young drivers, sparked opposition throughout the province, beginning with regional protests and followed by a huge march and rally at the Legislature February 13 and a Lower Mainland protest that filled the PNE Agrodome February 1. Pat McGeer was the provincial cabinet minister responsible…
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Nanaimo Band - IWA [International Woodworkers of America] picket of CPR [Canadian Pacific Railway] track, Nanaimo Indian reserve
Year: 1986
Description: Nanaimo Band chief Jerry talks to media on tracks cutting through land as band and IWA Local 1-80 join forces to halt shipment of logs destined for strikebound AgPulp mill in Port Alberni.
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