Victoria After endless hours in planes, crossing the international dateline, and airports from Seoul to Tokyo to Seattle and then finally to the small airfield in Victoria, British Columbia, it felt good to be among friends last night again with the brothers and sisters of the British Columbia Government Employees Union (BCGEU) at their regional leadership …
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The Canadian Lessons in Turning Back Collective Bargaining Assaults
New Orleans In the early years of this century in Canada public employees and their unions faced almost exactly the same kind of hard conservative, neoliberal provincial attack on collective bargaining that we are seeing in the Republican assault in the Wisconsin, Ohio, and Indiana. Conservative governments had gained the whip hand in provincial parliaments …
Raising the British Columbia Minimum Wage
Vancouver Even as the regional leaders of the BCGEU were strategizing with me on Friday morning about living wage campaigns in their cities and raising the minimum wage in British Columbia, according to the Prince George Free Press the local City Council had reneged on a pledge made in 2007 to the support an increase …