Labour Day: Working people in B.C. have made big gains, and we aren’t going back

This year, Labour Day comes at a challenging time for working people.

Here in B.C., we’re facing the same difficulties workers across North America (and even other parts of the world) are coping with: affordable housing, access to health care and rising costs for the essentials we all count on every day.

That makes it more important than ever that working people stand together.

Standing together is how we’ve won important victories in B.C. Victories like five paid sick days, Canada’s highest provincial minimum wage, a dramatic expansion in affordable childcare, and single-step union certification — so workers who make it clear they want to join a union don’t

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