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Budget ignores jobs crisis and provides no vision for a better BC
March 2, 2010
With no help for children living in poverty, reductions to student aid and continued layoffs and cutbacks in public services, Colin Hansen's budget fails to address the critical issues facing B
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Federation calls for renewed focus on jobs
March 2, 2010
Published today in The Province:
Now that the Olympics are over our collective attention must refocus on BC's troubled economy.
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“Official Restaurant” of the Olympics pays lowest wages in the country
February 18, 2010
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Liberals must introduce a jobs budget as BC continues to lose full-time jobs
February 5, 2010
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Cries for Help Beneath Olympic Cheers
January 28, 2010
Published today in The Vancouver Sun.
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Campbell government continues to ignore domestic violence
January 20, 2010
Solicitor General Kash Heed's so-called "action plan" to fight domestic violence is wholly inadequate to deal with a problem that devastates families in all parts of the provinc
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New Brunswick to increase minimum wage to $10, BC’s remains a national embarrassment
January 5, 2010
New Brunswick (NB) today announced a series of increases to their provincial minimum wage that will lead to a 21 percent increase by September of next yea
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Minimum Wage: third increase in three years in Quebec, frozen for eight years in BC
December 15, 2009
BC’s minimum wage will continue to fall behind other Canadian provinces following the Quebec government’s announcement today that they will increase their minimum wage to $9.50 an hour next May.
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Coroner's jury calls on government to improve safety for farmworkers
December 10, 2009
The B.C. Federation of Labour welcomes the recommendations released this afternoon by a Coroner's jury that was looking into the deaths of three farmworkers who died in a van crash in 2007.
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Systemic inspection and enforcement problems failed to protect workers
December 9, 2009
Jim Sinclair, President of the B.C. Federation of Labour, testified today at the Coroner’s Inquest into the deaths of three farmworkers who died in a van crash in 200
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