Description: Jack Munro, the legendary former IWA Canada official, has died at age 82.

Source: The Vancouver Sun

Date: 11/15/2013

Link: http://www.vancouversun.com/business/forest+labour+icon+Jack+Munro+dies/9171250/story.html

Related links:

• Vancouver Sun column
• CBC story
• The IWA-Steelworkers merger
• CBC story about the merger
• The B.C. Solidarity movement

Questions for discussion:

• Why was Jack Munro a significant person in Canadian history?
• What has happened to the power of unions since Munro’s day?
• What are the reasons for this change?
• What was the B.C. Solidarity movement?
• Do you think a movement like that could happen today? Discuss.