Highlights
Upcoming Events:
- May 12, 2008: Stress in the Workplace OHS Course Greater Vancouver
- May 12, 2008: WEYERHAEUSER KAMLOOPS SAWMILL GRAND CLOSING EVENT
Poll
Affiliate News
- Legislation restores health care workers' collective bargaining rights
- FPSE Calls for Emergency Summit of Post-Secondary Leaders
- SAFEWAY Members Vote 99% For Strike Action
- Make hospital contractors pay family-supporting wages to cleaners and dietary workers - poll
- Cancellation of Upper Pitt IPP Proves Faults With BC’S Energy Plan
- What Happened to Five Great Goals? say College Educators
- Illegal medicare billing: Nurses win significant victory in case against provincial government
- Throne Speech: future generations will pay for their own health care
- Out of touch Throne Speech lacks vision and leaves working families paying more
- Throne speech puts health care on the market
- Nurses welcome commitment to streamlined degree, question continued push for schemes like tax shelters to fund seniors care
What's New
April 28, 2008Day of Mourning: occupational disease epidemic in BC -- True number of killed and injured much higher than official statistics
April 28th is the International Day of Mourning for workers who have been killed or injured on the job or who have died from an occupational disease. Official statistics show a terrible toll of death and injury but they only tell part of the story.…
April 15, 2008Cap and Trade talks must include labour not just corporations
Broader discussion needed on fundamental changes The B.C. Federation of Labour is calling on the Campbell government to put labour representatives on the Climate Action Team immediately. The Climate Action Team includes academics, First Nations,…
Issues and Campaigns
Minimum Wage
Minimum wage earners working full-time should earn at least enough to stay above the poverty line. That can only be achieved by immediately raising the minimum wage to at least $10.00 per hour. Details...
Childcare
B.C.'s working families need a real childcare plan that creates affordable quality spaces. That's why the B.C. Fed has joined with childcare advocates and the CodeBlue Coalition to ensure publicly funded, quality childcare is on both the national and provincial agenda.Details...
