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CUPW [Canadian Union of Postal Workers] rally re: negotiations after local strike vote
Year: 1985
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Lawyers group returning from Nicaraguan elections
Year: 1984
Description: Vancouver lawyers Stuart Rush (right) and Peter Grant (left, glasses) speak to reporters following their return from Nicaragua where they were part of a group of eight lawyers from Vancouver, Toronto and Oregon, acting as observers in the Nicaraguan elections that gave a 79 per cent mandate to the Sandinista government. "They stated that the elections had been carried out in "scrupulous compliance with the electoral law."
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Opening of UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers' Union] strike, Steveston - B.C. Packers plant
Year: 1984
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Building trades rally outside Expo 86 office
Year: 1984
Description: Photograph shows BC and Yukon Building Trades president Roy Gautier speaking to media.
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BCGEU [British Columbia Government Employees Union] picket site, Robson Square, during 24 hour strike
Year: 1982
Description: BC Government Employees Union strike to back bargaining demands, under the shadow of the Social Credit government's Compensation Stabilization Act - - one of the early onslaught's on public sector wages in a battle against workers' wages and living standards that continues in the western world to the time of this writing (2015).
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BCGEU [British Columbia Government Employees Union] picket site, Robson Square, during 24 hour strike
Year: 1982
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Police eviction of carpenters, UIC [Unemployment Insurance Commission] occupation
Year: 1982
Description: Carpenters union members occupy Vancouver regional office of the Unemployment Insurance Commission. They'd been ruled ineligible for UI benefits because the commission considered them still on strike, rather than laid off, despite a memorandum of agreement with employer Citation Industries, a local kitchen cabinet manufacturer.
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CFU [Canadian Farmworkers Union] pickets at WCB [Workers' Compensation Board] hearings
Year: 1984
Description: Members of Canadian Farmworkers Union and supporters demonstrate outside Workers Compensation Board hearings into proposed changes to regulations at WCB headquarters in Richmond. CFU was protesting exclusion of farm workers from WCB regulation. CFU president Raj Chouhan talks to reporters.
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Labor minister Bob McClelland at UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] convention
Year: 1984
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Labor minister Bob McClelland at UFAWU [United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union] convention
Year: 1984
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Letter carriers picket, Vancouver Main Post Office
Year: 1987
Description: Letter Carriers Union of Canada pickets outside Vancouver's main post office as the union stepped up its strategy of rotating strikes in the face of Canada Post's use of strikebreakers to carry mail. The following day, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Mary Southin brought down an injunction limiting pickets to three throughout the "county of Vancouver" — which according to the ruling, extended north to Powell River and east to Hope. The LCUC was successful, however, in winning a collective agreement…
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Letter carriers picket, Vancouver Main Post Office
Year: 1987
Description: Letter Carriers Union of Canada pickets outside Vancouver's main post office as the union stepped up its strategy of rotating strikes in the face of Canada Post's use of strikebreakers to carry mail. The following day, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Mary Southin brought down an injunction limiting pickets to three throughout the "county of Vancouver" — which according to the ruling, extended north to Powell River and east to Hope. The LCUC was successful, however, in winning a collective agreement…
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DERA [Downtown Eastside Residents Association] meeting with Claude Richmond
Year: 1987
Description: DERA organizer Jim Green talks to the media following meeting with Human Resources Minister Claude Richmond in which the minister refused to reinstate $7 taken off welfare recipients benefits in the wake of a court ruling that found paying under-26 recipients $25 a month less was discriminatory. The ministry had earlier responded to the court ruling by ending the age discrimination — and then reducing the benefits of all recipients by $7 a month.
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PSAC [Public Service Alliance of Canada] demonstration outside treasury board chair Pat Carney's office
Year: 1988
Description: Public Service Alliance of Canada rally, organized in conjunction with Canadian Labour Congress convention, outisde Treasury Board minister Pat Carney's office in downtown Vancouver May 12, 1988.
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