The minimum wage in British
Columbia has been the same rate for the last 7 years, imagine not
getting a raise for seven years!
Costs are rising for every thing, fuel alone has risen to almost 40% in
the last year, its no surprise we have the highest child poverty rate in Canada.
In BC
there are 250,000 of the 2.3 million workers that earn less than $10.
per hour. The Labour minister was asked
why not raise the minimum wage? his response was almost no one makes
that wage so its not important, well ask those 250,000 workers if its
important and if its no big deal then why not raise it?.
While the premier of this province
refuses to raise the minimum wage
the government recently announced
they have raised their own wage by
43% for the top politicians.
and introduced a carbon tax that will
shelter corporations tax the working
people and do very little to save the
environment.
Over 20,000 forest workers have lost
there jobs by the liberal
government cutting down our forests and shipping the raw logs
to outside Canada to have them manufactured.
The IAM has many members who work in the saw mill
manufacturing, industry and have been laid off because of the
raw log export.
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