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Digging Deeper

Finding South Asian Workers in West Kootenay History Guest post by Greg Nesteroff The BC Labour Heritage Centre’s recent book Union Zindabad! cites a newspaper item revealing South Asian sawmill workers in the Kootenay Lake town of Kaslo “successfully struck for more wages” in May 1907. This fleeting mention piqued Read more…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 5 daysMarch 23, 2023 ago
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Vancouver’s 1932 Hunger March

“A Great Tide of Humanity Protesting Against Inhumanity” Researched and written by Donna Sacuta 6,000 March in Vancouver Despite police predictions that it would be a “dismal failure”, 6,000 men, women and children descended on the Powell Street grounds—now Oppenheimer Park—in Vancouver on 22 February 1932 for a “Hunger March”, Read more…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 4 weeksMarch 2, 2023 ago
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Union Maids in Action – The 1918 Steam Laundry Strike

Content provided by Patricia Wejr and Rod Mickleburgh Download the lesson plan Listen to the podcast The intense class struggle of the first two decades of the twentieth century in B.C. included a small but strong group of women. Many women showed their mettle during early strikes. An example was Read more…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 2 monthsFebruary 2, 2023 ago
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Ray Haynes

Ray Haynes was head of the B.C. Federation of Labour from 1966 to 1973 and, arguably, the most influential leader in the long history of the B.C. Fed. Excerpted from a speech by Rod Mickleburgh, November 24, 2022 to the 60th BC Federation of Labour Convention, Vancouver B.C.   I Read more…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 4 monthsNovember 28, 2022 ago
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Out to Fight Controls

October 14, 1976 – Out to Fight Controls BC workers answer labour’s call (excerpted and adapted from On the Line: A History of the British Columbia Labour Movement by Rod Mickleburgh) On Thanksgiving, October 14, 1975, fretting over sky-high inflation and soaring wage increases, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announced Canada’s Read more…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 6 monthsOctober 13, 2022 ago

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