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More than 1,300 labour activists will gather in Vancouver for the BC Federation of Labour’s 58th convention starting Monday at 11:00 am at the Vancouver Convention Centre East. They will focus their energies on ways to level the playing field for working people in BC; and how to work with the NDP government to undo 16 years of damage caused by the BC Liberals in key areas like the labour code

Ride-hailing legislation ignores the needs of transportation workers, says BCFED The BC Federation of Labour says it is disappointed that ride-hailing legislation introduced today in Victoria offers little to promote good-paying, stable jobs and fails to establish protections for workers from large multi-national companies like Uber that have bad labour relations records. “We appreciate the goal

The BC labour movement is praising the move by the Horgan government to repeal Bill 29—the controversial legislation brought in by the BC Liberals that was used to fire 10,000 health care workers more than a decade ago. “Bill 29 was an abuse of power by the BC Liberals that was a targeted attack on the jobs and livelihoods of tens of thousands of mostly women health care workers,” says BC

Working people employed in low-paid, precarious jobs will benefit from changes proposed by an independent panel of experts formed by Labour Minister Harry Bains to recommend improvements to BC’s labour code, says the BC Federation of Labour. Bains released the panel’s report and recommendations earlier today. He also announced that stakeholders and the public have until November 30th to comment on

Vancouver - Legislation proposed today by Labour Minister Harry Bains is a first step to end the exploitation of vulnerable temporary foreign workers (TFWs) by unscrupulous employers and labour recruiters, says the BC Federation of Labour. “We support the legislation because it includes a number of concrete measures, like mandatory licensing of recruiters and registration of all employers relying

Vancouver—Irene Lanzinger, the labour leader who helped spearhead the fight for a $15 minimum wage in BC, says she will not seek re-election for another two-year term as President of the BC Federation of Labour at the Federation’s 58th Convention at the end of November. Lanzinger, 63, the first woman President in the organization’s history, says the time is right to step down to make a transition