#bclab — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bclab, aggregated by home.social.
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Contracting out conventional public transit is a bad idea. Contracting out #HandyDART (paratransit) is an even worse idea. globalnews.ca/news/1199770... #bcpoli #bclab #wheelchair
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“If there is a low minimum wage and workers are reliant on variable tips to earn a living this is not providing fair pay. Human labour cannot be treated as a commodity that changes price at the whim of the market.” #bclab
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The BC Nurses Union has issued a 72-hour strike notice, meaning nurses across the province could start taking job action starting July 2 at noon. #bclab
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The Supreme Court of British Columbia has upheld Workers’ Compensation Board decisions that found BC Hydro illegally discouraged a worker from claiming compensation for a workplace injury. #bclab
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Greater Victoria Uber Drivers have a new deal that includes bonuses, the ability to appeal customer ratings and a $500 fund that can be used on extended benefits or as sick pay, reports Isaac Phan Nay. #bclab
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Ahead of the book launch for “A Fight For Justice” last Wednesday, labour reporter Isaac Phan Nay met Joe Barrett to discuss his fight at the heart of a historic union drive for migrant workers — and its ripple effect on labour nearly two decades later. #bclab
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More than 500 organizations in B.C. are now certified living wage employers, guaranteeing over 22,000 workers and contracted staff wages that actually match the cost of living in their communities.
That number, years in the making, is growing faster than ever. #bclab #TyeePresents #Sponsored
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We have yet to discuss the new normalization of closures of rural emergency departments and how that could have made #TumblerRidge even more tragic than it was.
Emergency physician Alan Drummond writes. #bclab
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A preventive health-care solution that could benefit rural, remote and Indigenous communities across B.C. is struggling to find staff.
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By increasing “wildfire salvage” of forests, B.C.’s forests minister Ravi Parmar is travelling down the same road that has seen the province’s logging rates plummet by more than half since the heyday of the 1980s. #bclab #OldGrowth
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The change is part of a slate of updates to how cranes will be permitted that the minister announced March 3, in response to a series of fatal crane incidents in B.C. that have killed workers and a passerby. #bclab
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More than 13 years after one pipe layer was killed and another injured while replacing a Burnaby storm sewer, their employer is in court for a sentencing hearing. #bclab
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The union for workers at Jim Pattison-owned Save-On-Foods says it has raised concerns about another Pattison company’s sale of a Virginia warehouse for use as a detention centre for ICE. @[email protected] reports. #uspoli #bclab
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“Part-time jobs usually result in lower incomes, and so income insecurity and financial insecurity are the kind of things we’d worry about going forward.”
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Vancouver-based animator Emily Gossmann is “an optimist” and believes in her “union and labour movement’s capacity to move the needle on regulation and to get better protections.”
Isaac Phan Nay reports. #bclab
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“We’re tired and I just want to go back to work. I want to go sell books.” #bclab
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Workers at the only unionized Amazon warehouse in Canada sat down Thursday to negotiate a contract for workers. Isaac Phan Nay reports.
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After a tense eight-week strike, B.C. has reached a tentative deal with the union for 34,000 government workers. Isaac Phan Nay reports. #bclab
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The BC General Employees’ Union has been escalating its job action over the past five weeks and as of Friday had more than 17,000 members on strike or taking other job action, about half of the number who work for the core government.
Andrew MacLeod reports. #bclab
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More than three weeks after the BC General Employees’ Union went on strike, the number of workers on picket lines continues to increase without a response from the government. #bclab