working TV is operated by the Slim Evans Society, a registered non-profit society in the province of British Columbia. The society is named after Arthur "Slim" Evans, an early BC labour leader and activist. He is most well known as leader of the 1935 On to Ottawa Trek of single unemployed men demanding work and wages from the federal government during the depression of the 1930s.
Directors of the Slim Evans Society
Sid Chow Tan (Media Activist)
Suzie Mah (BC Teachers' Federation, Vancouver Elementary School Teachers' Association)
Ron Verzuh (retired CUPE National staff)
Art Moses (BC Nurses' Union)
Stacey Robinsmith (BC Teachers' Federation) and
Holly Page (BC Government amd Service Employees' Union)
working TV Producer/Director
Julius Fisher,
AFM 145, a long time labour and cultural activist in BC.
Fisher worked at union jobs in BC for nearly 2 decades, including 16 years as a Vancouver city bus driver and transit union activist. After an injury in 1988, he quit transit and registered in the Communications faculty at Simon Fraser University. There his studies confirmed what most labour activists already know intuitively: the mainstream media depicts labour in an unfair and distorted manner. Fisher's research concluded that labour's limited video production resources would be used much more cost effectively if unions combined their resources and used community access television facilities.
With funding from the Hospital Employees' Union, he began working TV on Rogers Community 4 in BC's lower mainland region. The first program aired on May 1 1993.
As of October 16th, 2009, working TV has been on air for over 16 years and has 449 regular programs in its catalogue, plus about 25 one hour "special" programs. Most are available online.
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