On the Line: Stories of BC Workers
On the Line: Stories of BC Workers
Latest Episodes
Ep. 37: Sí, se puede | Tunnel Workers Fight for Justice
In 2006, forty Latin American tunnel workers building Vancouver's Canada Line discovered they were paid far less than Canadian and, later, European workers doing identical work underground. With help from Local 1611 of the Labourers' Union and ...
Ep 36: Signatures from Spain
A rare hand-painted fan donated to the Museum of Vancouver holds the signatures of roughly 35 Canadian volunteers who fought fascism in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) — most from British Columbia, and 13 of whom never came home. In this spec...
Ep 35: The 1965 Granduc Mine Disaster
On February 18, 1965, a massive avalanche struck the remote Granduc copper mine camp, north of Stewart, BC. Twenty-six of the 150 workers on site were killed, mostly members of Labourers' International Union Local 168. The slide destroyed bunkh...
Ep. 34 - "Put Your Go****n Money on the Table!" - Labour Icon Syd Thompson
For almost five decades Syd Thompson (1914-1992) was a formidable force in BC’s labour movement. President of the large Vancouver local of the International Woodworkers of America (IWA) and the Vancouver and District Labour Council, Thompson di...
Ep.33 - Apple Box Belles
The hard-working women in the Okanagan Valley's bountiful fruit packing plants from the 1920s to the 1970s became known as the “Apple Box Belles”. While much has been written about Okanagan fruit-growing, the early union history has barely been...
