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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

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

Vancouver - The tragic death of a Victoria construction worker on the weekend raises questions about whether the provincial government is doing enough to enforce rules to keep workers safe on the job and to hold employers to account when workers are killed or injured at work, says the BC Federation of Labour. Victoria construction worker Rolan Huetzelmann died January 15 from injuries sustained in