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Vancouver - A week of events to highlight the depths of poverty and inequality in BC and the need for the next provincial government to take action through a concrete poverty reduction strategy kicks off in Vancouver Saturday, February 25. The launch event is a panel discussion on Good Jobs, Good Wages that focuses in on concrete measures that can be taken to tackle the rise of precarious work and

Vancouver - Today’s BC budget offered a number of election goodies for voters—including a rollback of some of the massive increases in MSP premiums imposed by the BC Liberals—but nothing to invest in vital public services that have been cut over the past 16 years, says the BC Federation of Labour. “Hard working British Columbians and our families are grappling with urgent challenges around

The BC Federation of Labour is voicing its concern that governments across Canada must do more to protect worker safety, after a Winnipeg bus driver was murdered in an attack by a passenger on February 14. BCFED President Irene Lanzinger extends condolences to the family, friends, and co-workers of Irvine Jubal Fraser. The Amalgamated Transit Union member was stabbed at the last stop in his work

Vancouver - Today’s Speech from the Throne offered few concrete measures to make life better for hard-working British Columbians, nor did it deliver real action to address the growing poverty and inequality crisis that is too prevalent in our province, says the BC Federation of Labour. “It was the same platitudes, and same old excuses from a tired government that’s run out of gas,” says BCFED

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