Update on the Bimini Strike

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Identifier: SD_Box56_Priorities Vol 5 Number 12_December 1977
Title: Update on the Bimini Strike
Description: An Article by Joan Woodward in Priorities Vol 5 Numer 12, December 1977. It provides more details on Bimini's strike, it explains the "fading away" operation from the employer through an interview with a waitress, Margot Holmes. The workers awere asking for benefits and a fair contract.
Format: PDF
Type: Magazine Article
Creator: See all items with this value N.D.P. Women's Committee
Is Part Of: See all items with this value Sara Diamond fonds; Publication
Date: 1977; 1970s

Sub-theme: Inform on Strike action
Theme: See all items with this value Labour
Subject: Women; Labour organizing; Employment; British Columbia; Restaurant.
Tags and Specific Analysis: SORWUC.; Pickets.; Imtimidation––closing the space; harassing workers; employer reduced working hours until the employees are obliged to quit (aka, "fading away" the employees); Lack of union ethics by the Bartender's Union.; Customers; Bartender's Union Local 40
Places, Locations and Nations: [Vancouver (kitsilano)]
Note: Not specified.; Not Specified.
Category: Restaurant workers
Medium: Printed press; feminist newspaper.

Source: See all items with this value VIVO Media Arts Centre; See all items with this value VIVO Media Arts Centre
Provenance: The personal archive of Dr. Sara Diamond donated to the Crista Dahl Media Library and Archive in 2018.; Contextual material regarding social-democatic feminist activism in the 1970s
Rights Holder: Creative Commons

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