Carpenters in Aprons, Metalworkers in Tin Hats and Morticians in Black by Donna Sacuta, BCLHC Executive Director Underlying Racism Excluded Many Parades – particularly Labour Day parades – were big attractions in the early years of British Columbia. While a venue for unionized workers to assert their place in society Read more…
A Formidable Force for Working Women by Rod Mickleburgh with Donna Sacuta Alice West was a BC union pioneer who died on September 17, 2021 at the age of 95. She devoted much of her working life to paving a better path for working women, mostly as a formidable force Read more…
This Day in History: Sept. 22, 1980, the TWU Struggle Against the BC Telephone Company Begins Researched and written by Bailey Garden, BCLHC Project Manager The 1980s kicked off in British Columbia with an inspiring example of workers using new tactics to cope with an aggressively anti-union employer. The BC Read more…
Historic Reversal of a Government “Betrayal” Written and researched by Bailey Garden, BCLHC Project Manager On Aug. 30th 2021, the provincial government of BC under the New Democratic Party (BC NDP) announced that dietary and housekeeping workers in the healthcare industry would be brought back into the public domain after Read more…
Winnipeg’s “Most Dangerous Man” Became one of North Vancouver’s oldest and most respected citizens. Written and researched by Donna Sacuta Under close police surveillance, the 1936 Vancouver May Day parade announcer mocked passing effigies of local white nationalist Tom MacInnes and Mayor Gerry McGeer . “Volunteers to throw Tom and Read more…