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…
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…
In the summer of 1954, racist signs on the women’s washrooms at the Namu fish cannery divided the facilities between “Whites” and “Natives”. They had been there for years, but despite demands from both the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union (UFAWU) and the Native Brotherhood of BC (NBBC) they Read more…