Celebration and solidarity: BCFED statement on Pride Month and Pride Season

This is the beginning of one of our favourite times of the year: Pride. It’s a season to celebrate our 2SLGBTQIA+ members, family, friends and neighbours: the contributions they make to our movement and our lives, and their enduring, invaluable presence in our community. We celebrate even as we protest, finding joy in our unity and solidarity against discrimination, fear, hate and violence

It was one year ago Sunday evening that tragedy struck the Lapu-Lapu Day block party in Vancouver. We share the grief and loss felt by the Filipino community and everyone who was affected by that terrible attack. This is a difficult anniversary, and our hearts go out to everyone reliving painful memories of that event. That includes the first responders, frontline workers, community workers and

Amshen ( Joan Phillip) is an ally to working people and a devoted Indigenous leader. Many of us have fond memories of working in her joyful by-election campaign in 2023, and we've been fortunate to have her friendship as a strong voice and a principled, passionate advocate in government. At our 2024 Convention, she and her husband Grand Chief Stewart Phillip brought us to our feet cheering with a

This year’s Day of Mourning ceremony, remembering workers killed, injured or made sick by their work, will take place on Tuesday, April 28 on the steps of the BC Legislature from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. The ceremony will include speakers from labour and local government, as well as Avneet and Avnoor Sidhu, daughters of Sarabjit Kaur Sidhu. She was one of three farmworkers killed on March 7, 2007

April is Autism Acceptance Month, and today is World Autism Acceptance Day. This is an opportunity to celebrate the contributions that autistic people bring to the labour movement and to our province. It's a chance to challenge some assumptions about our workplaces, our communities and our unions — about what conditions and environments are truly welcoming and inclusive to everyone, and allow all

April is Sikh Heritage Month — a great time to recognize the profound contributions of Sikh workers to our country, our province, and our movement. In British Columbia, Sikh workers helped build the foundations of key industries like forestry and sawmilling. Their gurdwaras became vital community hubs — places not only of worship, but of organizing and mutual support, even as Sikh and other South

A pdf of the complete submission can be found here. Our followup letter to the WCB on April 23, 2026, can be found here. Introduction The BC Federation of Labour appreciates the opportunity to provide our recommendations with respect to the proposed amendments to the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation Part 8 – Personal Protective Equipment, and Part 31 - Firefighting. The BCFED represents

New crane safety measures announced today by BC Labour Minister Jennifer Whiteside will save lives and make construction sites safer across the province, say the BC Federation of Labour, BC Building Trades and International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 115. “This is the culmination of years of work by the labour movement, and especially by construction unions,” said BCFED President

Today’s provincial budget charts a course toward reducing the deficit while preserving some key public services, the BC Federation of Labour said today. But they warned British Columbians will feel the impact of cuts and program pauses, and the government left key revenue-generating opportunities on the table. “It’s good to see BC making a historic commitment to skills training, opening up great

Congratulations to Angie Reamer of CUPE 4163 and Brittni Paquette of ILWU 508! Angie has been awarded the 2026 Donna Sheaves Memorial Scholarship, and Brittni wins the 2026 Kim Manton Memorial Scholarship. The scholarships were established with CUPE Local 402 and the Victoria Labour Council in memory of Donna Sheaves and Kim Manton, two wonderful union women lost them too soon. Each scholarship