Jonnie Rankin Interview [Parts 2 and 3]

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Identifier: Jonnie Rankin 2/3, 3/3
Title: Jonnie Rankin Interview [Parts 2 and 3]
Description: In Part 2 of 3, Johnnie Rankin discusses the position of women within the Boilermakers Union and the types of jobs she worked at the shipyard. She also discusses childcare, equal pay, and the existence of issues specific to women. She talks about what she learned from the trade unions, and how working changed her life. Finally, she discusses working in restaurants and approaching the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union.

In Part 3 of 3, Johnnie Rankin discusses organizing in restaurants, going to business school, the 1946 strike and the role of women within it, the creation of the Labour Theatre Guild, and the political impact working during the war had on her.
Format: MP4, 2
Type: Digital copy of 3/4" Umatic videotape
Creator: See all items with this value Sara Diamond; See all items with this value Women's Labour History Project
Is Part Of: Sara Diamond fonds
Date: 1986

Contributor: Sara Diamond, interviewer
Theme: See all items with this value Labour
Sub-theme: Trade Union
Subject: Restaurant Organizing; Restaurant workers; Waitresses; BC Trade Union History
Places, Locations and Nations: Vancouver, Canada. Unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations

Source: See all items with this value VIVO Media Arts Centre
Provenance: Donated by Dr. Sara Diamond to the Crista Dahl Media Library and Archive (VIVO Media Arts Centre) in 2018.
Access Rights: For research purposes. Requires permission to publish. Please contact the archivist.
Rights Holder: Sara Diamond

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