Solidarity: The Largest Political Protest in British Columbia's History Solidarity: The Largest Political Protest in British Columbia’s History BC Labour Heritage Centre
The BCGEU flag, fashioned from a bedsheet, which flew over Tranquille Institution in 1983 has been preserved in the archives of the Union.
On July 19, 1983 members of the BC Government Employees’ Union began a three-week occupation of the Tranquille Institution in Kamloops after learning its closure was planned. They […]
On July 15, 1983 the BC labour movement set aside internal disagreements and held an all-union delegated conference at which Operation Solidarity was born. Transcription: ALL UNION DELEGATED […]
B.C. Federation of Labour news conference on July 15, 1983 to announce plan to launch Operation Solidarity in response to the provincial government’s legislation. Seated: Jack Munro, Art […]
Buttons were a popular method of expressing opposition to the 1983 provincial budget and the restraint policies advocated by right wing think tanks and the Social Credit government.
On July 13, 1983 a group calling itself Women Against the Budget was formed. It was a broad-based umbrella organization of women who became a force in the […]
Members of the BC Human Rights Commission took their concerns directly to a public meeting in Vancouver on July 12, 1983 after being fired by the provincial government. […]
On July 12, 1983 hundreds of people attended a forum called by fired members of the BC Human Rights Commission to express outrage at the attack on human […]
As cabinet ministers rose in the legislature on July 7, 1983 they introduced 26 new pieces of legislation as well as a budget slashing social programs and labour […]
The provincial government attempted to portray the closing of the Human Rights Branch and firing of the Human Rights Commission as a means of making the system more […]
A cartoon expresses fears raised by the July 7, 1983 BC budget that slashed core social programs and targeted labour groups.
In 1982 Premier Bill Bennett announced a program to address “the new economic reality” in BC and launched his 1983 election campaign with a platform of “restraint”. Transcription: […]
