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The Italian Labourers’ Strike, July 1910

by Jak King Reproduced with permission from Grandview Heritage Group Originally published November 10, 2022 The summer of 1910 was a hot one for labour across North America. In the first couple of weeks of July, more than fifty thousand garment workers went on strike in New York in a Read more…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 10 monthsJuly 22, 2024 ago
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In Sickness and In Health

1991 legal victory by the HEU broadened the definition of “spouse” Researched and written by Natasha Fairweather   As early as 1989 the Hospital Employees’ Union (HEU) had successfully negotiated medical benefits for same-sex partners into collective agreements. Without legal protection, however, recognition of these relationships was up to each Read more…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 11 monthsJuly 9, 2024 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, 2 yearsMarch 2, 2023 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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Frank Collins: Union Leader and Black Activist in 1940s Vancouver

(Photo: Four members of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, Canadian Pacific Railroad Division, posed standing: Frank Collins, Joe(?) Hudson, L.M. Alexander, and Sam Lewis, ca. 1943. Frank Collins became President of the Vancouver Division of the Union, as well as the BC branch of the Canadian League for the Read more…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 7 yearsMarch 5, 2018 ago
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