Christine Hayvice

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CHRISTINE HAYVICE was born in New Zealand in 1949, and immigrated to Canada in 1971, where she was hired by CP Air in 1974, and soon became involved in her union, BRAC. A writer, she produced newsletters, magazines, and managed a website along with holding various union positions including head of the airline division. She also wrote articles for various social justice magazines and was published in anthologies. She has just completed work on a history of a unit of airline workers in Canada covering 60 years, 1942-2002, called Arrivals and Departures, She is a graduate of Simon Fraser University’s creative writing program, The Writers Studio; was a vice-president of the BC Federation of Labour, a member of the Vancouver Industrial Writers Union, and belonged to a women writers and artists group, Sex, Death and Madness. She retired in 2006 and moved back to New Zealand in 2016, where she’s working on stories about the crazy but fabulous Jewish side of her family.

Genre:

  • Autobiography / Memoir
  • Freelance Writer
  • History
  • Journalism
  • Non-Fiction
  • Poetry
  • Short Stories

Skills:

  • Freelance Writing
  • Indexing
  • Poetry Readings
  • Print Media Writing (magazines/newspapers)
  • Public Speaking
  • Research
  • Tutoring
  • Website Content

Branch:

Wellington

Location:

Te Aro

Publications:

Arrivals and Departures

A sixty year trade union history of a unit of airline workers stretched across the enormous geographical boundaries of Canada, that started out as Canadian Pacific Airlines in 1942, experienced several mergers, and ultimately was subsumed in a hostile takeover by Air Canada in 2002. During that time the unions also merged, changed and morphed; pitting union against union. Intially a male dominated group of dispatchers and radio operators who communicated via Morse code, the impact of technology caused the unit to evolve into a female group thanks to the arrival of computers and keyboards and the inevitable devaluation of the work, plus the disappearance of jobs. Who amongst you now doesn't book online and do self-service check-in at the airport? It was not a radical union but when the cause was right the workers were solidly in support of the union. 

Published by Unifor Local 2002, August 2020.

Emerge

An anthology published by graduates of The Writers Studio at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. It contains a story from my childhood in Wellington called Ice Cream and Peaches.

More Than Our Jobs

A collection of stories and poems by the Vancouver Industrial Writers Union, based in Vancouver, Canada. A performance group, the writings are about the daily work life of the participants jobs including a fisherwoman, fisherman, a maternity doctor,  a female carpenter, office worker, airline worker, ship builder, social worker and a university professor. I was married then and my contributions are under my married name of Micklewright.