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Strikes

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The stormy history of union organizing in BC’s private hospitals

This story is based upon a conversation between Pam Moodie, a volunteer at the BC Labour Heritage Centre, and Aime Antoshchuk. Pam and Aime met at a Burnaby assisted living facility where the 83-year old Antoshchuk lives. We are fortunate to have the opportunity to share Aime’s union organizing experience Read more…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 3 yearsApril 16, 2020 ago
Articles

“Fitz” St. John: A Longshoreman’s Longshoreman

by Rod Mickleburgh Research by Donna Sacuta and Bailey Garden Esi Edugyan may have won the 2018 Giller Prize for her novel about the astounding exploits of Barbados-born Washington Black, but the story of William Fitzclarence “Fitz” St. John was the real thing. His long, remarkable life, which, like the Read more…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 3 yearsFebruary 26, 2020 ago
Articles

The 1919 Prince Rupert General Strike

“A Duty to Organized Labour and Workers Throughout the Whole Dominion” When the Winnipeg General Strike began on May 15, 1919 sympathy strikes in communities across Canada soon broke out.  In British Columbia, the heroic Vancouver sympathy strike and Victoria’s four day stoppage are often cited as examples. (see bibliography). Read more…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 4 yearsMay 16, 2019 ago
Articles

“So Vividly, I remember”

April 23, 1935 In April 1935 thousands of single unemployed men organized by the Relief Camp Workers’ Union went on strike to demand “Work and Wages” as the Depression wore away at the country. “Hunger marches, demonstrations, tin-canning, large public rallies and boisterous snake dances through downtown streets became as Read more…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 4 yearsApril 17, 2019 ago
Education

Lloyd Edwards Leads Surrey Teachers to take Action on Class Sizes in 1974

Lloyd Edwards immigrated to Canada in 1953 from his birthplace in Trinidad and Tobago. After obtaining a degree from the University of British Columbia he became a teacher and eventually became active in both his local union and the BC Teachers’ Federation. Edwards’ father had been a teacher and a Read more…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 4 yearsFebruary 12, 2019 ago

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