Category: Labour
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STATEMENT: Public Service Bargaining and the BCGEU’s Trade Union Struggle
The BCGEU represents 95,000 members across British Columbia, including over 34,000 employed directly by the provincial government under the Main Public Service Agreement. This agreement, which functions as a wage and working conditions benchmark across the province in multiple sectors, expired at the end of March 2025. After nearly seven months of bargaining, the Union…
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BC’s New Protections for Gig Workers Fall Short
PV Vancouver Bureau On June 12, BC’s NDP government announced that it had finalized a new set of regulations for app-based employers in the province. These regulations are ostensibly meant to improve working conditions for workers of corporations such as Uber, Lyft, Uber Eats, SkiptheDishes and DoorDash, otherwise known as gig workers. As of September…
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Revolutionary Vancouver Walking Tour
Join us for a Walking Tour of Revolutionary Vancouver! The tour will meet at Victory Square in downtown Vancouver at 1pm on Saturday, July 27. The tour will visit key locations highlighting Vancouver’s RADICAL history. We’ll learn about the On-to-Ottawa Trek, unemployment struggles, trade union organizing, the Communist Party and much more! The tour will…
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May Day 2024: Unite and Fight for Peace, Jobs, and Rising Living Standards
May Day 2024 marks the rising struggle of workers against low wages and falling living standards, after years of austerity, high prices and gargantuan profits by the biggest national and transnational corporations. A year and a half of high interest rates by the Bank of Canada has enabled the big banks, landlords, developers, loan sharks…