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A host of organizations including the B.C. Federation of Labour issued a letter May 1, 2013 to Galen Weston, Executive Chairman, Loblaw Companies Ltd., calling on the company to take immediate steps to ensure such tragedies as the garment factory collapse in Bangladesh do not occur in the future. “We are mourning the tragic deaths in Bangladesh, but we are also issuing a call to action for the

B.C. Federation of Labour President Jim Sinclair called Stephen Harpers’ announced changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program a clear case of "public window dressing" which will do nothing to protect the jobs of Canadians. "This Program is fundamentally flawed because it allows employers to undercut the wages and working conditions of Canadians, while at the same time, exploit TFW's who have

Please see attached letter from BC Labour to RBC President Gordon Nixon regarding Temporary Foreign Workers program. Letter from BC Labour to RBC re TFW Program

Vancouver, BC-The Employee Action and Rights network held sit-ins at Mac’s Convenience Stores in Vancouver, Victoria and Nanaimo beginning at 7:00 April 12th and lasting until 6:00 am Saturday April 13th to stand in solidarity with workers everywhere who have to work alone during late-night hours in retail environments. The events were planned to raise awareness of the changes to the working alone

Vancouver, BC—Yesterday’s federal budget promised new language restrictions for employers, but did little to stop employers from using Temporary Foreign Workers as a cheap pool of labour with fewer rights than Canadians, said B.C. Federation of Labour President Jim Sinclair. While Budget 2013 offers vague promises about changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker program, it maintains the employer’s

More TFW permits requiring Mandarin language to work in north east mines revealed Vancouver, BC – On the same day it was revealed that nearly 100 additional TFW permits issued in northern BC relied on a mandarin language requirement, BC labour leaders are criticizing the federal government’s review of the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program as incomplete and inadequate, after participating in