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  • A photograph of workers with picket signs standing outside the Bay Building downtown, with the A-Channel "A" logo above them.

    Station of Broken Promises

    Adrian Pearce

    Previously, ECAMP presented a story from an A-Channel employee who decided to cross the picket line during the 2003-4 strike. Adrian Pearce – a cameraman who helped lead the strike – submitted this response. Read what the strike was like for workers who held the line for 166 days.

  • Wooden boats crewed by colourful voyageurs meet crowds of HBC employees, Métis, and First Nations on the bank below an expansive wooden fort. First Nations tipis also crown the nearby hills.

    The Company and the Combination: Collective Bargaining at the River’s Edge

    Tom Long

    In 1853, a group of voyageurs shipping furs from Fort Edmonton put down their oars in solidarity with one of their crew members. It was an early murmuring of organized labour in the West: not quite a strike, not quite a mutiny, but very much a show of strength and unity.

  • A group of workers standing outside the A-Channel headquarters, holding a sign that says "Scab TV"

    The Labour Dispute Will Be Televised

    John Vandenbeld

    An inside look at the 2003-2004 strike at A-Channel Edmonton. “The strike dragged on through the fall and into the winter,” writes John Vandenbeld. “I both wanted it to end and feared its conclusion, knowing that I’d have to work with these people again.”

  • Against the Law: the 1988 Nurses’ Strike

    Josephine Boxwell

    “The government can make all the laws they want, but they can’t stop people from going on strike… You could…

  • Chocolate Bar Strike

    Neil Cramer

    How frequently is it that we hear our peers or elders talk about how children are lazy and don’t have…

  • The High Level Bridge at 100

    Lawrence Herzog

    It wasn’t fancy, but it was strong and structural, with 17.2 million pounds of steel held together with 1.4 million…