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["B.C. truck safety standards," "Lois Boone"]

Year: 1996

Names: Murphy, Dan

Part of: Editorial Cartoons Collection

Type: Still Image

Laborers pickets at post office

Year: 1987

Description: Members and supporters of Local 602 Construction and General Workers on strike against contracted-out cleaning service provider A & A Service at Canada Post, block vehicles from leaving main Vancouver Post Office in protest over company's action in hiring scabs in an action aimed at blocking union's efforts to win a first contract. The Local 602 strike and another strike by Canada Post which contracted-out cleaners in Toronto was in response to federal contracting-out of service jobs and…

Part of: Pacific Tribune Photograph Collection

Type: Still Image

Health Coalition demonstration at Laurel Street project opening

Year: 1982

Part of: Pacific Tribune Photograph Collection

Type: Still Image

Health Coalition demonstration at Laurel Street project opening

Year: 1982

Description: Photograph shows five people standing next to a truck with a sign covered in signatures across it.

Part of: Pacific Tribune Photograph Collection

Type: Still Image

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, BC 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…

Part of: Pacific Tribune Photograph Collection

Type: Still Image

Truckers protest in Abbotsford

Year: 1973

Description: Teamster Local 213 truckers and independent owner-operators stage protest convoy from Abbotsford to Surrey in a campaign to stop trucking companies from whipsawing drivers to push wage rates down.

Part of: Pacific Tribune Photograph Collection

Type: Still Image

PSAC [Public Service Alliance of Canada] at post office during national strike

Year: 1988

Description: Picketing during the national strike by the Union of Postal Communications Employees, a component of the Public Service Alliance of Canada. The strike began Aug. 24 over the issue of reduced hours for technicians who service postal sorting equipment.

Part of: Pacific Tribune Photograph Collection

Type: Still Image

Truckers rally re: low freight rates, PNE

Year: 1989

Description: Hundreds of truck owner-operators staged a cavalcade from Surrey to the Pacific National Exhibition grounds in Vancouver to protest low freight rates paid at the Port of Vancouver. They cited deregulation and a concerted effort by freight companies to drive down rates lower than those paid in 1982.

Part of: Pacific Tribune Photograph Collection

Type: Still Image

Truckers rally re: low freight rates, PNE

Year: 1989

Description: Hundreds of truck owner-operators staged a cavalcade from Surrey to the Pacific National Exhibition grounds in Vancouver to protest low freight rates paid at the Port of Vancouver. They cited deregulation and a concerted effort by freight companies to drive down rates lower than those paid in 1982.

Part of: Pacific Tribune Photograph Collection

Type: Still Image