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Anti-racism

BC union women fight racism in fishing industry

In the summer of 1954, racist signs on the women’s washrooms at the Namu fish cannery divided the facilities between “Whites” and “Natives”. They had been there for years, but despite demands from both the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union (UFAWU) and the Native Brotherhood of BC (NBBC) they Read more…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 7 yearsMarch 5, 2018 ago
Education

Frank Collins: Union Leader and Black Activist in 1940s Vancouver

(Photo: Four members of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Canadian Pacific Railroad Division, posed standing: Frank Collins, Joe(?) Hudson, L.M. Alexander, and Sam Lewis, ca. 1943. Frank Collins became President of the Vancouver Division of the Union, as well as the BC branch of the Canadian League for the Read more…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 7 yearsMarch 5, 2018 ago

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