Operation Solidarity

The Operation Solidarity (also known as the Solidarity Crisis) refers to a protest movement in British Columbia, Canada in 1983 that emerged in response to the Social Credit (Socred) government's economic policy of austerity and anti-union legislation. A mass coalition, the Solidarity Coalition, was formed, composed of community organizations and trade unions, which many expected would culminate in a general strike.

References

[https://books.google.com/books?id=05-41FvNvB0C&dq=%22solidarity+coalition%22+%22british+columbia%22+1983&pg=PA50 Defying conventional wisdom: political movements and popular contention against North American free trade, Jeffrey McKelvey Ayres], University of Toronto Press, 1998, pp. 50–53 {{ISBN|0-8020-8089-8}}
[https://books.google.com/books?id=_X_aK5pD5kgC&dq=%22solidarity+coalition%22+%22british+columbia%22+1983&pg=PA327 The West beyond the West: a history of British Columbia, Jean Barman], University of Toronto Press, 1991 (rev. ed. 1998), pp. 327–328, {{ISBN|0-8020-7185-6}}
The Solidarity Coalition, in The New Reality (Vancouver: New Star Books), eds. Warren Magnusson, William K. Carroll, Charles Doyle, Monika Langer, and R.B.J. Walker, eds., pp 94–114.

Category:1983 in British Columbia

Category:1983 protests

Category:Labour disputes in British Columbia

Category:1983 labor disputes and strikes