Oral History Summaries

Summaries of full-length interviews with BC labour activists
(Each interview is 1-2+ hours in length):

: John Jensen [former Vice President of the Construction Maintenance and Allied Workers of Canada] & George Kosoed (dual interview)

: Art Kube [former President, BC Federation of Labour]

: Ray Haynes [former Secretary-Treasurer, BC Federation of Labour]

: Sharon Yandle [former labour negotiator, BC Teacher’s Federation, Hospital Employees Union, BC Nurses Union]

: Nick Carr [former Local 1 president, United Fishermen and Allied Workers’ Union] (audio only)

: Bill Zander [former President, BC Provincial Council of Carpenters]

: Jeffrey Keighley [former national representative, Canadian Autoworkers Union]

: Clive Lytle [former staff, BC Federation of Labour, and labour educator]

: Kate Braid [labour poet, educator and first female member of the BC Carpenters Union]

: John Shields [former President, BC Government Employees Union, and labour educator]

: Peter Burton [former President, Canadian Association of Smelter and Allied Workers during 1976 Kitimat wildcat strike, and lawyer]

: Muriel Overgaard [former and first female President, Canadian Union of Public Employees BC]

: Jackie Ainsworth [founding member, Service, Office and Retail Workers’ Union of Canada & Association of University and College Employees]

: Ken Bauder [former Secretary-Treasurer, International Longshore and Warehouse Union]

: Cathy Walker [former local 1 President and Health and Safety Director, Canadian Autoworkers Union/Canadian Association of Industrial, Mechanical and Allied Workers]

: Gary Kroeker [former President, B.C. Building Trades Council and former Executive member of International Union of Operating Engineers Local 115]

: George Hewison [labour musician, former Secretary-Treasurer of United Fishermen and Allied Workers’ Union and former labour secretary, Communist Party’s Central Executive Committee]

: Ken Georgetti [former President, United Steelworkers Local 480, BC Federation of Labour, & Canadian Labour Congress. Current Vice President, International Trade Union Confederation]

: Hans Brown [former staff, Hospital Employees Union, and Provincial Secretary, BC New Democratic Party]

: Carolyn Askew [lawyer, former and first Legislative Counsel of BC Federation of Labour]

: Bernice Kirk [Former Secretary-Treasurer & President, Canadian Union of Public Employees]

: Elaine Bernard [labour historian]

: Grace Stevens [former International Woodworkers of America member, United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union Women’s Auxiliary organizer, and wife of Homer Stevens (UFAWU President)]

: Jess Succamore [former Secretary-Treasurer, Canadian Association of Industrial, Mechanical and Allied Workers]

: Mike Dumler [former President, Canadian Union of Public Employees]

: Colin Gabelmann [former MLA, BC NDP & Attorney General, 1972-75 during introduction of BC’s first labour code]

: Lloyd Edwards [former President, Surrey Teachers Association, during 1974 strike/walkout]

: Dave Pritchett [former Executive Member, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 500, and son of labour activist Craig Pritchett (ILWU Canada President)/grandson of Harold Pritchett (IWA founding President)]

: Ken Isomura [Former Secretary-Treasurer, Industrial, Wood & Allied Workers of America (IWA) Local 1-417, Executive Council member & Labour Staff Representative, United Way]

: Rod Hiebert [Former President, Telephone Workers’ Union]

: Diane Wood [Former Vice-President and Secretary-Treasurer, BC Government Employees’ Union]

: John Radosevic [Former President, United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union/Canadian Autoworkers Union]

: George Brandak [Former Archivist, UBC Special Collections (labour history)]

: Mary LaPlante [Former Financial Secretary, Hospital Employees Union]

: Audrey Keely [Former staff, International Woodworkers of America, Labor-Progressive Party, Vancouver Municipal and Regional Employees’ Union, United Fishermen & Allied Workers Union]