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The following is a statement from Irene Lanzinger, president of the BC Federation of Labour. “The month of February 2017 marks the 20th anniversary of the celebration of Black History Month in Canada. As we continue to bear witness to the ongoing struggle for equitable treatment of black people in our communities, we are reminded not only of black leaders and activists in society of decades past

The following is a statement from Irene Lanzinger, President of the BC Federation of Labour: “To the victims and their families of the January 29th terrorist attack on the Centre Cultural Islamique de Quebec which took the lives of Abdelkrim Hassane, 41, Mamadou Tanou Barry, 42, Ibrahima Barry, 39, Azzeddine Soufiane, 57, Khaled Belkacemi, 60, and Aboubaker Thabti, 44. On behalf of over 500,000

Vancouver - The BC Federation of Labour is renewing its call for the BC government to make workplaces safer after two more workers were killed in fatal incidents at Okanagan timber facilities in the past five days. On Friday, a worker at a log sorting facility in Lumby was killed on the job. Yesterday, an employee at a mill in Kelowna also died in a workplace accident. The RCMP and Workers’

Vancouver – The BC Insulators Union and the BC Federation of Labour are extremely relieved the BC Court of Appeal has unanimously overturned a February 2016 BC Supreme Court ruling that WorkSafeBC laws protecting asbestos removal workers from the deadly substance were too “voluminous and complex” to enforce. The BC Court of Appeal this month overturned a Supreme Court decision of February 2016

Vancouver - Yesterday, Premier Clark announced more than $13 million in funding to expand and renovate trades apprenticeship training facilities at North Island College in Campbell River. But ironically, Victoria has no tangible guarantees in place that apprentices will even be used in the construction of the new facilities, says the BC Federation of Labour. And in a letter sent today to Clark

Vancouver - The BC Federation of Labour says the BC Liberal’s jobs update announcement this morning does little to address fundamental questions about the quality of jobs and how work supports families and communities. “It’s not just about the number of jobs an economy creates, it’s also about the quality of those jobs that counts as much or more,” says Lanzinger. “Are jobs stable? Do they pay