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Service, Office and Retail Workers' Union of Canada (SORWUC)
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[SORWUC Local 1: Unit Reports NSC, Restaurants, Pubs 1977] Local 1 Unit Report to the National Special Convention. A. Restaurants and Pubs Bimini's and Church's Chicken. June 23/24 1977 -
[SORWUC Local 1 Unit Reports:Victory at Biminis] Local 1 Unit Reports abt. Feb 1977. Meeting with Bimini's re 1st contract. -
[Report SORWUC national Convention 1977] Report by Pat Barter, President, Local 1 of SORWUC for the National Convention held Feb 5, 1977. Includes an update on Biminis and Church's Chicken organizing. -
[SORWUC Local 1 Unit Reports] SORWUC Local 1Unit Reports [abt. Feb 1977]. Brief reports on the status of all actions, including that the first negotiation meeting with Bimini Neighbourhood Pub. -
[Notice to SORWUC Members and Supporters: Organizing Seminar] Notice of an Organizing Seminar to be held March 27, 1977. These seminars were part of SORWUC's education programs aimed to train and encourage workers to initiate unions in their workplaces. -
[Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Loc 40 letter to SORWUC] Jean Rands reads a letter from Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local 40 written to the Labour Relations Board protesting SORWUC's application to represent Bimini Neighbourhood Pub. -
[SORWUC Newsletter Local 1 Oct. 1977 Vol.1, No. 2] The Negotiating Committee serves notice that a strike vote has been called after 8 months of negotiating with Bimini Neighbourhood Pub. Includes wage rates for servers. -
Muckamuck goes cowboy in order to beat strike (Oct 11, 1978) In midst of SORWUC strike action, Muckamuck owners Jane Erikson and Doug Christmas hold a private party at the Muckamuck restaurant "hiring mostly non-native workers, clad in cowboy outfits, and of hanging cowshides on the walls." -
Cowboys Lasso Muckamuck (Oct 11, 1978) 4 1/2 months into the SORWUC strike at the Muckamuck restaurant, the owners open part of the premises with a cowboy theme and the new name "Chilcotin Bar Seven". -
Unions Aren't Native: The Muckamuck Restaurant Labour Dispute Vancouver BC (1978-1983) Essay by Janet Mary Nicol on the Muckamuck dispute affecting First Nations restaurant workers represented by SORWUC, -
Jackie Ainsworth January 28, 2017 Interview Transcript. Jackie Ainsworth January 28, 2017 Interview Transcript. Includes her experiences with the Vancouver Women's Caucus and SORWUC. -
Vancouver Women's Caucus History "Because of the difficulty transcribing the tapes (bad recording equipment, several people talking at once), the tapes got put aside and were eventually misplaced. When they turned up 15 years later, Pat Davitt and Anne Roberts decided it would be a good retirement project to get the work done. They met on many Sunday mornings for nearly a year in 2013 to complete the work. After the tapes were transcribed (transcript of tape 1; transcript of tape 2), the original group (minus Andrea, who died in 2011, and Ellen, who decided she was too busy to continue working on the project) began to meet monthly in 2014 to talk about what, if anything, to do with the material. Joined by Liz Briemberg, the group decided the following priorities, depending on what energies and interest they have to follow through: The transcripts and tapes would be donated to the Women’s Caucus collection in the SFU archives; The transcripts would be circulated to other women who had been Caucus members with requests for feedback (reactions, corrections, arguments) and for additional material to fill in the gaps (in written form or in an interview format); Oral histories would be collected as much as possible from the women involved in the various workshops or subcommittees, such as the working women’s group, The Pedestal, the Indo-Chinese Women’s Conference and the education committee. (We decided that the abortion campaign was already well-documented.) To make all this material widely available to the public, a website would be created where we could also post pictures, leaflets, posters, articles, podcasts, songs and links to other historical documents, books, such as Ann Thompson’s book on the abortion battle in Canada, etc. When contacting other members, the group has been asking them to write down their own memories and analyses – when and how they got involved, what happened and why, and what they did after Women’s Caucus. The idea is to make all this material available on a website somewhat like Wikipedia in that everyone would have a chance to post what they want and no editorial board would exercise control of the content (except in the unlikely event of libel, racism, sexism, etc.) The group has been soliciting everyone to get out those old boxes stored in attics and help them obtain any leaflets, articles, posters, pictures, etc. to compile a complete record as possible. [https://www.vancouverwomenscaucus.ca/herstory/early-days/] -
A Brief History of SORWUC A brief history of SORWUC, published by SORWUC. -
Muckamuck stew is back at the LRB (May 14, 1980) Strikebreaking Muckamuck employees appear for 2nd time in front of Labor Relations Board in attempt to break ties with SORWUC. -
Muckamuck employees withdraw application (May 15, 1980) Strikebreaking employees Muckamuck restaurant withdraws 2nd application for decertification. Employees would not provide a reason for withdrawal. -
Muckamuck Told: No contract, no business (Feb 19, 1981) A newspaper article. SORWUC spokesperson Jenny Moses talks about the status of the Muckamuck strike ongoing since June 1, 1978 and at the time, British Columbia's longest running strike. SORWUC spokesperson Jenny Moses talks about their strategy and the growth of their union. -
[Strikebreakers page 2 of 2] Dispatch to members that on May 14, 1980 Muckamuck strikebreakers withdrew their latest application to decertify the union. The union explains the restaurants action and how SORWUC is responding. -
[Petrobenko Poem] "Days and Nights on the Picket Line", a poem by Helen Petrobenko, January 1978. Published in SORWUC National Newsletter Vol 1 No 1 May 1978. -
[Right to Collective Bargaining] A flyer given an update on the status of the Muckamuck strike, why strikes are necessary, why not to patronize the Muckamuck. -
[Delegates for 1977 National Convention] SORWUC invitation to a Christmas Party followed by a list of delegates to the 1977 National Convetion. -
Muckamuck 'failed to bargain in good faith' (Apr 25, 1981) The B.C. Labor Relations Board has found management of the Muckamuck restaurant guilty of failing to bargain in good faith, noting that they "no intention to enter into a collective agreement with SORWUC" and are encourageing and assisting the staff strikebreakers. -
Restaurant picket guilty of assauting manager (Mar 21, 1980) A picket-line confrontation between a SORWUC picketer and Sussy Selbst,the manager of the Muckamuck restaurant, led to a charge of common assault against Patricia Barter. Charges against Donald Fodor and Helen Potrebenko were dropped. -
Quebec 'strikebreakers' draw action from B.C. Fed (Feb 20, 1980) A news article that reported complains from the Hotel, Restaurant and Culinary Employees + Bartenders Union Local 40 regarding the Cannery restuarant's employment of professional strikebreakers. Published on February 20, 1980. -
An unsigned copy of a collective agreement between Jericho PUB Inc. and SORWUC (1984-1985). Collective Agreement Between Jericho PUB Inc. (the Employer) and SORWUC, Local 1 (the Union). Effective: May 7, 1984 - January 31, 1985