Labour History - Photographs

Newspaper clipping from Pacific Tribune titled, Rally urges labour action on racism.

Public meeting invitation, Canadian Farmworkers Union.

Photo of Raj Chouhan, President of Canadian Farmworkers Union, speaking as a delegate at the BC Federation of Labour Convention.

Photo of Canadian Farmworkers Union representatives at the 1983 Solidarity Rally at Empire Stadium.

Public meeting invitation in Lao language, Canadian Farmworkers Union.

Photo of protestors of BC Organization to Fight Racism outside of the office of Social Credit Premier, Bill Vander Zalm, MLA.

A report of the B. C. Human Rights Commission on the farmworkers & domestic workers by the Human Rights Commission of British Columbia.

This is a racisim-free zone sticker, BC Federation of Labour.

Cover page of BC Federation of Labour news, Vol 1, No. 3 dated September 1980. Includes a front-page image of a local Ku Klux Klan rally in 1980. This publication was distributed to every union in the province.

Photo of South Asian drivers at Yellow Cab one-day strike. Indo-Canadian drivers at Yellow Cab stage a one-day strike in protest over racist comments from a supervisor, reflecting a long-standing practice of racism at the cab company. The drivers, members of the Ad Hoc Committee of Lower Mainland East Indian Taxi Drivers and Owners, were supported on the picket line by BC unions.

Photo of South Asian truckers and independent owner-operators at the protest convoy from Abbotsford to Surrey in a campaign to stop trucking companies from whipsawing drivers to push wage rates down.

Photo of protestors at the International Longshore and Warehouse Union rally at the Portside Park.

Photo of South Asian, Japanese and Caucasian workers at Seymour Lumber Company in North Vancouver.

Photo of sawmill workers at Seymour Lumber Company in North Vancouver.

Photo of International Woodworkers of America (IWA) members at the final membership meeting of Local 1-217.