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1/ Applications are open for GGCLC 2026! This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for emerging leaders from labour to grow their skills, perspectives & networks. Let’s make sure labour is there in full force! www.leadershipcanada.ca/2026-confere...

This is going to be an amazing, inspiring afternoon. Join @susibcfed.bsky.social at 3 pm on Oct. 5 on SFU's Surrey Campus as we look at the extraordinary protests that united farmers and unions — and forced the Modi government in India to back down.

At this time of reflection, renewal and hope, we wish a very happy Rosh Hashanah to British Columbia's Jewish community, and to Jewish workers the world over. Shana Tova!

Saturday | 10:30 PT @bcpolicy.bsky.social Racial Equity Researcher @verosioufi.bsky.social joins us to talk about the historic unionizing success for Amazon workers in Delta, and Uber workers in Victoria. What helped and hinders organizing in BC @bcfed.bsky.social @ufcwcanada.bsky.social @unifor.org

Day 12: members on picket lines in Cranbrook, Fort St John, and Vancouver showed their commitment to achieving a strong collective agreement.

Congratulations and thanks to Canada's Building Trades Unions and @civicgovernance.bsky.social on this ground-breaking (literally!) report on the millions (also literally!) of skilled jobs we can unlock by building a cleaner, better future. #BCLab #CanLab

At just 14, Will Cretenko nearly died on the job. Two decades after the Westray Law, prosecutions are still too rare. CLC Exec VP @siobhanvipond.bsky.social says it’s time to hold employers accountable. #EnforceWestray www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ssh...

THIS MORNING! Victoria friends, come out and support striking @unitehere40.bsky.social workers at Coast Victoria Hotel & Marina. Four weeks on the line and still going strong! 9:30 am on Tuesday, September 16. #BCLab #YYJ

THIS MORNING! Victoria friends, come out and support striking @unitehere40.bsky.social workers at Coast Victoria Hotel & Marina. Four weeks on the line and still going strong! 9:30 am on Tuesday, September 16. #BCLab #YYJ

🚨Speaker announcement! Join us Oct 2 for Canada’s Unions: Protecting Labour Rights & Human Rights Ahead of FIFA 2026⚽ Hear from: -Ambet Yuson (@BWIglobal) -Todd Brogan (@ITUC) -Aline Nizigama (@YWCA_Canada) -Jennifer Li (@dignity2026) Register now: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Hear a progressive case for fair taxation and robust public investment in our communities and learn how declining revenues—not overspending—created our fiscal challenges. A webinar with senior economist @iglikaivanova.bsky.social‬, Sept. 17, noon PT. bcpolicy.ca/events/

Two of BC’s public sector unions just went on strike as public servants push back against rising costs of living Wages that don’t keep pace with inflation and outsourcing contract work are at the centre of two public sector strikes in British Columbia

The Temporary Foreign Worker Program has always been about exploitation. That has to stop, and stop now. So does scapegoating migrant workers for our affordability and housing crisis, instead of addressing corporate profiteering and decades of government underinvestment. #BCLab 🧵

A lot of BC workers are on the job today in the middle of heat and air quality warnings. These conditions can lead to serious health issues like heat exhaustion, heat stroke and respiratory problems. #BCLab 🧵

Learn the truth behind the deficit and other austerity narratives in a webinar with senior economist @iglikaivanova.bsky.social‬. Hear about a progressive case for fair taxation and robust public investment in your community. Sep 17, noon PT.

Labour Day reminds us of the power we have when we organize and stand together. It should also remind decision-makers what really powers our economy, and who it needs to serve. Because for a long time, our economy has been leaving a lot of working people behind. Let's change that. #BCLab 🧵

Labour Day reminds us of the power we have when we organize and stand together. It should also remind decision-makers what really powers our economy, and who it needs to serve. Because for a long time, our economy has been leaving a lot of working people behind. Let's change that. #BCLab 🧵

Just wrapped up a great day of conversations with unionists, legislators and environmental leaders from New York state. Thank you to our guests and @nysaflcio.bsky.social, Climate Jobs NY and Cornell University ILR's Climate Jobs Institute for coming to BC and joining us!

Bombshell reporting by my @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social colleagues here This reflects very poorly on the Vancouver Police Department, which isn't being forthcoming about questionable assault numbers continually promoted ahead of the last municipal election www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

BC has the fiscal capacity and institutional tools to lead the way and advance even more-ambitious reforms than New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani proposes. Researcher ‪@verosioufi.bsky.social‬ analyzes his policy agenda and shows how it could work in BC.

Huge congrats to @cupescfp.bsky.social flight attendants! Despite Carney’s government imposing Section 107, they stood firm, fought back, and won a fair deal at the bargaining table. Deals are made at the table, not through government interference. #canlab canadianlabour.ca/cupe-flight-...

From BC Labour Minister @jenniferwhiteside.bsky.social:

Flight attendants are seeking an end to mandatory unpaid work. According to CUPE, much of the work that flight attendants do before and after flights — safety checks, preparing the cabin, helping passengers, boarding and deplaning procedures — is not paid.

"For collective bargaining to function, the parties need to meet on something like a level playing field. Employers have many levers at their disposal to pressure workers. Workers have one: the power to withdraw their labour." www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com... #BCLab #CanLab #CdnPoli

THE STRIKE CONTINUES!

People smugly saying "Why did you take the flight attendant job if you didn't like its terms?" reeks of "Kids these days just don't want to work anymore - in MY day we worked terrible jobs and didn't complain." So we're just...never supposed to fight for better? Is that it? Cool, thanks! 👍🏻

These aren't the pictures Air Canada and the Carney Liberal government expected to see today. Air Canada thought they could dig in their heels and refuse to bargain in good faith, and the federal government would come riding to their rescue. #BCLab #CanLab #CdnPoli (1/4)

Tonight our movement stands united in every part of Canada behind striking Air Canada Component of CUPE flight attendants. Here's the latest statement from @canadianlabour.bsky.social: canadianlabour.ca/canadas-labo... #BCLab #CanLab #CdnPoli

CUPE has a message for Mark Carney, Patty Hajdu and the Liberal government: You have seriously understimated our strength, our determination. You have picked a fight with the wrong union, the wrong workers, and you have definitely picked a fight with the wrong women. #unfairCanada #UnpaidWorkWontFly

These aren't the pictures Air Canada and the Carney Liberal government expected to see today. Air Canada thought they could dig in their heels and refuse to bargain in good faith, and the federal government would come riding to their rescue. #BCLab #CanLab #CdnPoli (1/4)

It's kind of amazing how much of an unforced error by the Liberals forcing them back to work was Truly shooting yourselves in the foot for no reason

Today we rallied with CUPE workers to demand fairness for Air Canada flight attendants. ✈️ Workers deserve a collective agreement — not Section 107 interference. This is a working-class fight against corporate greed. ✊ One day longer, one day stronger. #canlab

And now, a message from Air Canada's CEO youtu.be/DXaJxEg-ucQ?...

@susibcfed.bsky.social was at YVR bright and early to deliver the message: BC's unions are 100% behind @cupescfp.bsky.social Air Canada flight attendants! And our message to Ottawa: Respect their Charter rights and LET THEM BARGAIN! #BCLab #CanLab

CUPE’s National President Mark Hancock – YYZ – August 16th 2025

By invoking 107 of the Labour Code to force an end to this strike, the Liberals are trampling on flight attendants’ Charter rights and handed Air Canada exactly what it wanted. Crushing workers’ rights is not fairness, it is siding with corporate greed and betraying every worker in this country.

We've just sent this letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney regarding negotiations between @cupescfp.bsky.social flight attendants and Air Canada/Air Canada Rouge. tl;dr: Respect the collective bargaining process and don't intervene. #BCLab #CdnPoli #CanLab

Meet Brishti Basu, PressProgress’ new health reporter: The promise of universal public healthcare has always been central to the ‘Canadian Dream’. Our new health reporter Brishti wants to help keep the dream alive. Say hi to @brishti.bsky.social 👋

Hint: it has a lot to do with our progress in making labour legislation fairer. #BCLab

My Bill C415 is coming back to be tabled again. Flight Attendants must be paid in full for every hour they are at work. www.ndp.ca/news/ndp-rei... 🙏🙏 @ndp.ca

Air Canada makes flight attendants work an outrageous number of unpaid hours, and pays poverty-level wages to its most junior employees. @hkailley.bsky.social was proud to join these @cupescfp.bsky.social workers today at YVR and show our solidarity, part of a nation-wide day of action.

Keep up with Canada's social democratic think tank. The August edition of the Broadbent Bulletin is out now—with highlights from the 2025 Panamerican Congress, the latest from Perspectives Journal & @pressprogress.ca's Shift Work newsletter. Check your inbox or read online at broadbentinstitute.ca

Thousands of good, high-skilled jobs. Economic spinoffs at a time when BC communities need them most. And a revitalized shipbuilding industry. Let's make this investment count for BC. Build our ferries here.

Stay safe out there. Workers need extreme weather protection that reflects our changing — and often dangerous — climate. #BCLab

Air Canada‘s flight attendants are gathering at four major Canadian airports in what the union’s calling a national day of action as labour negotiations continue. globalnews.ca/news/1132949...

JUST OUT: the BC govt report on its public dialogues around a new Canadians of South Asian Heritages Museum. engage.gov.bc.ca/govtogetherb... As part of the advisory board, Hermender Singh Kailley helped lead engagements with union members. We're glad to see them reflected so well here!

When we build in BC, we build BC jobs, BC communities, BC's economy and BC's future. #BCLab

Today's #UnionGlossary term: Termination without cause Termination without cause is when your employer lets you go for non-disciplinary reasons. You're usually entitled to advance notice or severance pay, and your union can review if it was fair or allowed under your contract. #BCLab #CanLab