News releases
BCFED recommits to Reconciliation: “The only way forward is together”
September 29, 2025
September 30 is a day for reflection, learning and action. We invite working people everywhere in BC to join in marking this day by exploring and learning, supporting an Indigenous business, or taking part in one of the many events happening in communities throughout the province. BCFED declares boycott over Coast Hotel Victoria lockout
September 25, 2025
The BC Federation of Labour’s Executive Officers today voted unanimously to declare a boycott of the Coast Hotel Victoria & Marina over the hotel’s lockout of its frontline staff, members of UNITE HERE Local 40.
“We reserve boycotts for the worst of employer behaviours, and this is certainly a... more “Buying BC” starts with investing in workers
August 29, 2025
Labour Day is a reminder of the power working people have when we organize and stand together. It should also be a reminder to decision-makers of what really powers our economy, and who it needs to serve. And for a long time, BC’s economy has been leaving a lot of working people behind. Injured workers should be first in line for WCB “surplus”: BCFED
July 17, 2025
Improving benefits for injured workers and strengthening workplace safety should be the Workers’ Compensation Board’s top priority in using its “surplus,” BCFED President Sussanne Skidmore said today.
The WCB — known by many as WorkSafeBC — announced Monday it would use $570 million from the... more Our solidarity is stronger than ever this Pride Month. And we’re going to need it. Â
May 30, 2025
Statement from the BCFED We enter Pride Season in a spirit of joy and celebration. Our solidarity with the communities that make up Pride is deeper than ever. The progress we’ve made together is immense, and we’re all the stronger for it. That’s fortunate. Because the threat to the... more Care, compensation, dignity and justice: BCFED statement on Injured Workers’ Day
May 30, 2025 | Health, Safety, and Compensation
June 1 is Injured Workers’ Day in Canada, when we rededicate ourselves to the fight for justice for injured workers. Swifter action needed as workplace dangers grow: BCFED statement on the National Day of Mourning
April 28, 2025 | Health, Safety, and Compensation
The most important right workers have is the right to come home at the end of the working day as safe and healthy as when they left. Yet so very often, that isn’t the case.
In the past year, there were 195 worker deaths reported. We must ask: why does that number remain so high year after year? Why... more On International Women’s Day 2025, we’re celebrating our progress — and preparing to defend it
March 8, 2025
We've come too far to let anyone take us back — whether it’s on childcare, or reproductive freedom, or reconciliation. This International Women’s Day, we declare our solidarity with women throughout BC, across Canada and around the world. BCFED calls on province to put working people and jobs first in tariff response
March 4, 2025
BC budget rejects austerity, holds the line on services families need Responding to Trump’s tariffs starts with defending every job — and then building an economy he can’t threaten
February 19, 2025
Defending our workers and our economy requires immediate action. But our vulnerability to the whims of one man signals the need for deeper, more far-reaching change.