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Unemployment Action Centres

Three people in a conversation stand outside an office storefront. The window of the office displays a federal government sign and the words Action Centre.

Rare Books and Special Collections, University of British Columbia, 1513-20

In 1982 the BC Federation of Labour established Unemployment Action Centres around the province to assist workers as unemployment peaked. The Centres became community hubs for organizing the unemployed and offered career counselling as well as food banks.