Labour History - Photographs ➔ [Photo of The Hospital Employees' Union bargaining committee at the Windermere Lodge]
Item
Identifier:
2021_08_01_082
Repository Identifier
Windermere-Lodge-Picket-Signs-1981
Date
May 1 1981;Date(s) of creation
Extent
1 photograph: b&w
Format
still image
Description
Windermere Unit members turned up at Trizec Corp. head office in downtown Vancouver in April to demonstrate against the corporation’s racist practices. The workers were protesting the higher wages being paid to white non-union people at the Vancouver health care facility during the strike.
Notes
The Hospital Employees' Union bargaining committee at the Windermere Lodge in 1981 consisted of South Asian, Hispanic and Filipino women. Hospital Employees’ Union, The Guardian, May 1981, 5.
Rights Statement
In copyright
Subject Headings - Library of Congress
Hospitals--Employees--Labor unions [http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85136608];Labor unions--Strike benefits [http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85136702];Union labels [http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139704];Labor union members [http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94006849]
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