A future worth fighting for

Every worker deserves to come home at the end of the day as safe and healthy as when they left.

But too many workers trying to earn a living pay for it with their lives.

We need stronger inspections, enforcement and legal protections — and accountability for employers that put workers in danger.

Imagine: Public transit that gets you where you need to go — quickly, easily, reliably... and affordably. No matter where in BC you live.

The Connecting BC plan can make that vision a reality... within the next decade.

We can fill the gaps left by years of neglect and privatization under past BC Liberal governments, and build on the important transit investments our current provincial government has made. And we can unite local and regional transit into an integrated, sustainable, zero-carbon whole.

After John Rustad's government froze the minimum wage for more than a decade, the BCFED won a hard-fought campaign to give BC's lowest-paid workers a raise.

Now, under the BC NDP, BC's minimum wage is the highest of any province. And it's tied to inflation, to keep low-income workers from falling behind.

But we still have a lot of work to do to close the gap between the minimum wage and the living wage, the amount a family needs to cover basic expenses.