Our solidarity is stronger than ever this Pride Month. And we’re going to need it.
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. Defending jobs must be priority #1 as Trump tariffs take effect: BC unions
February 1, 2025
(Burnaby) — The BC Federation of Labour today released the following statement regarding the announcement the Trump regime will levy a sweeping 25 percent tariff on Canadian exports, and a 10 percent tariff on Canadian oil and gas exports: Joint statement on the passing of Dan Coulter
December 13, 2024
The BC Building Trades and the BC Federation of Labour send our deepest condolences to everyone who knew and loved Dan Coulter. This is a painful loss both personally and for our movement. Joint statement on the passing of Dan Coulter
December 13, 2024
The BC Building Trades and the BC Federation of Labour send our deepest condolences to everyone who knew and loved Dan Coulter. This is a painful loss both personally and for our movement.
Dan was not only a friend to the labour movement in BC, he was one of us. A millwright by trade and the... more International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia: “Solidarity is the answer to hate”
May 17, 2024
For the past several years, a concerted right-wing campaign has attacked 2SLGBTQIA+ people, and particularly our trans community members. But there’s growing hope that people from all backgrounds are pushing back against the fear and disinformation. The Day of Mourning is about action as well as remembrance: BCFED
April 26, 2024 | Health, Safety, and Compensation
April 28 is about grief and remembering — honouring the workers we’ve lost, or who’ve been made sick or been injured, because of the work they do. Celebrating International Transgender Day of Visibility
March 28, 2024
The International Transgender Day of Visibility is a celebration of the transgender and gender diverse members of our community. And it reminds us how important that visibility is: it reduces isolation, sending a clear message to trans people that they are not alone. And it helps to fight fear,... more