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Solidarity picket lines

A group of people with picket signs walk along a sidewalk. Signs at the front read “BC Government Employees’ Union, We Need Work not Welfare” and “On Strike to Save Jobs”. Behind them are more people; one sign reads “ATU –Amalgamated Transit Union Local 583 Calgary Supports BCGEU strike”.

Image MSC160-903_31A, Pacific Tribune Photo Collection, Simon Fraser University Library. Sean Griffin photo.

Members of other unions and the Solidarity Coalition joined BCGEU picket lines at Robson Square in downtown Vancouver once the strike deadline had passed on October 31, 1983.