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General Strike

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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, 3 yearsOctober 13, 2022 ago
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“UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT”: The BC Tel Strike of 1980-81

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…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 4 yearsSeptember 22, 2021 ago
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“Make It Public!”: The History of HEU’s Fight Against Privatization

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…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 4 yearsSeptember 9, 2021 ago
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George Casey: Prince Rupert’s Labour Watchdog

Throughout his 50 years in Prince Rupert, George Bernard Casey was a steadfast representative of the working class and its union organizations. Born in Ontario in 1876, George Casey headed to the United States as a young man where he spent time as a “hobo”, ending up in jail on Read more…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 6 yearsAugust 29, 2019 ago
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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, 6 yearsMay 16, 2019 ago
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