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Say No to Mac Blo! - Port Alberni dispute (CEP) Mouseland video (UFCW) Feedback - viewers response
Fletcher Challenge strike (CEP) 2nd Step Violence Prevention Program (BCTF) Free Trade Economy in BC - profile of Gold River (PPWC)
Big Lie Economics - feature on "Deficit" mythology with music and comedy Tax Evasion by Finance Minister Paul Martin (ILWU 400) Kemano Completion Project axed (UFAWU) National Students' Strike (CFS)
Rally at Drydock against Finance Minister's Tax Evasion - his ship registered in Bahamas to avoid tax (ILWU 400) Airport Safety; segment on removal of firefighters and Emergency Response Services at airports (UCTE - PSAC)
Continuing Education, back to school program in Campbell River for under/unemployed adults (BCTF) Local reaction to Liberal Budget Message on Budget from CLC President Bob White (CLC) Feedback - Viewer response PSAC rally against 45,000 jobs cut in Budget (PSAC)
Everywomans' Choice; International Womens' Day feature on Everywomans' Health Centre and BC Coalition for Abortion Clinics Radio comedy on Liberal Budget performed live. (BCTF) Penticton Action Days; CLC / CUPE / South Okanagan Boundary Labour Council, event to preserve social programs. (CUPE)
Rally against the federal liberal Budget at the Vogue Theatre in downtown Vancouver. (VDLC / PSAC) Home Support Strike: Crucial to Health Care Reform's "Closer to Home" strategy, Home Support Workers have been waiting 3 years for a first contract. Some have been on strike for 8 months. (BCGEU) Workload Win: management at Surrey Memorial Hospital adopts union suggestions on a workload problem. (HEU) Highlights from Premier Harcourt's speech at B.C. NDP convention. Bay No Way: Striking Bay employees from Kamloops take their 7 month old dispute on the road, urging shoppers to boycott the Bay and cut up their Bay cards. (USWA)
PHHA Comedy segment - a Power Hungry Hospital Administrator learns to control his urges. (HEU) Pension's Protest against medicare cuts at Provincial Health Ministers' conference. North American Health Care workers' coalition meeting in Oakland California to compare notes and plan strategies.
working TV 2nd Anniversary highlights from years 1 & 2 Manitoba Election Report Mayworks Festival of the Working People and the Arts Mayday March and Rally (VDLC) Road to Haymarket - Chicago 1886 birth of Mayday struggle for the 8 hour day ( Labor Beat - Chicago Public Access TV )
Bay Strike - Striking workers from Bay store in Kamloops call for boycott of Canada's oldest corporation. (USWA) Marsh Reclamation - unemployed Fishermen clean up marshes on a Fraser River estuary to reclaim habitat for juvenile Salmon. (UFAWU) Six Weeks of Solidarity: Winnipeg 1919 - General Strike video ( Manitoba Labour Education Centre )
Unity on Waterfront - after waiting over 30 years CBRT 400 members merge with ILWU. (CBRT - ILWU) ESL or English As A Second Language for children of immigrants in schools(BCTF) (R) repeat from Nov 1994. Red Iron, Hard Rock & Deep Water - Vancouver's Second Narrow's Bridge re-dedicated to honour Ironworkers who died building it - (R) (Ironworkers)
Health Care Reform - BC's NDP is trying to reform the health care system at the same time as the Federal government is cutting funding. Unlike other provinces, BC's government has a coalition of labour and community groups on side. Health Care Comedy - Dr. Dean Daw$on explains why doctors and drug companies should continue to get rich while the health care suffers. (HEU) Social Work Dilemma - social workers have exercise the wisdom of Solomon to determine the best interests of children at risk - should they apprehend, or should they leave the child in a potentially dangerous family situation? (BCGEU)
On to Ottawa trek video Part 1 - in 1935 thousands of young unemployed men hopped freight trains for Ottawa demanding work, wages and an end to the relief camps. ( On to Ottawa Historical Society )
Part 2 of the On to Ottawa trek video.
PRIDE - Vancouver's poorest neighbourhood, the Downtown Eastside is being transformed by megaprojects such as GM Place and the Ford Theatre. The PRIDE pre-employment project hopes to get local people off welfare and onto the payroll of these facilities when they open. On to Ottawa '95 - 60th Anniversary celebrations of the trek in Regina and Victoria, and a look at the struggle for work and wages of young people today. Union Briefs: M&J Woodcraft strike; Hiroshima Day; Labour History Walk.
Pride '95: 17th annual Gay Pride Parade included many trade union activists. "That's Garbage": comedy skit about a dietary worker and a hospital administrator from the early days of the Hospital Employees' Union. (HEU) (R) Union Briefs: Purolator Courier Lockout; Victory for Choice activists; Same Sex Benefits Court Challenge.
Labour Day '95: a message from CLC President Bob White, and labour day picnics in New Westminster and Duncan. Mouseland: An animated version of the famous speech by Tommy "T.C." Douglas, about a country called Mouseland, where the inhabitants - all mice - keep electing cats to their government . . . until one mouse has a better idea. (UFCW) Staley Strike: An update on the bitter 2 year long lockout in Decatur Illiniois; a co-production with our sister programme, Labor Vision, from St. Louis,Mo. Union Briefs: Purolator Courier Lockout; CUPE Crossing Guards victory against cutbacks.
Medicare: The Ministers - Provincial health ministers met with their federal counterpart in Victoria. working TV was not invited but we went anyway. Together with the labour and community groups; we made sure the ministers got our message. (CLC Pacific) Medicare: The Doctors - Dr. Dean Dawson lampoons B.C. Medical Association policies which make some doctors very rich, at the expense of the health care system. (HEU) Fish Story: We look at the crisis in the salmon fishery from the union's point of view. ( UFAWU ) Union Briefs: rallies against CBC Cutbacks; against cuts to Special Needs Teaching Assistants in Surrey; and for striking Arbutus Clubs workers.
Your Safety Is In Our Hands: Airline flight attendants, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees Airline Division, speak out against cuts to staffing levels that are threatening air travel safety. (CUPE) Fish Story 2: a broad brush view of the whole west coast fishing industry and the challenges it faces in the future. Medicare Fightback - Dr. Dean Daw$on on health care. (R)
Education Special At the BC Legislature, BC students put federal "lyin' Liberal" leaders on trial for "assault on social programs". Great Trek re-created: UBC students re-create the "Great Trek of 1922" to protest cuts to education funding. (CFS) Labour School: As management continues to implement new techniques in changing workplaces, education is important to union activists. Canada's largest labour school is the Canadian Labour Congress Harrison Winter School, held each year in January and February at Harrison Hot Springs. (CLC Pacific Region)
Health Care Special Coaliton: To kick off National Medicare week, the new B.C. Coalition for Health Care Reform launches a new publication. Rally: More than 500 rallied outside Vancouver General Hospital on November 1 to hear Alexa McDonough, the new federal leader of the NDP, speak out against federal cuts to health care. (VDLC / HEU) Celebration: That same evening, hundreds more attended a public meeting to celebrate medicare with music, comedy and guest speaker Bob White. ( CLC Pacific Region / VDLC / NWLC )
TAXI !! We meet cab drivers at the "weeds", the holding area for up to 200 cabs at the Vancouver airport. We learn about their drive to organize. (USWA) The Last Fare - A video produced by Ottawa cabbies, members of the Steelworkers. (USWA) McGrath: his last campaign - Retired seaman, war vet and union leader Tom McGrath has been told he is dying of cancer, but he won't go without one last fight. He wants the federal government to grant veterans of Canada's WW II merchant marine the same status and benefits as other war veterans. (CBRT - ILWU 400)
BC Fed Convention: Highlights from the 40th annual convention, in Vancouver November 20 - 23 1995. (BC Fed) CEP "Save Medicare" Ambulance Tour: The Communications Energy and Paperworkers union is sounding the alarm about health care funding cuts. We caught up with their tour in Prince George for an evening rally with music and comedy. (CEP)
On to Ottawa trek video - in 1935 thousands of young unemployed men hopped freight trains for Ottawa demanding work, wages and an end to the relief camps. Working TV presents Part 1 of the 1992 On to Ottawa video.
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