The gracious bosses at Starbucks have decided to grant a wage increase for their “partners” across Canada. Affecting 20,000 workers, this will mean an increase of a dollar above provincial minimum wages, and a six to 10 per cent increase for workers who have been with the company for a year. They’re even giving three […]

Workers with UNITE HERE Local 40 marked one year of being locked out from the Metrotown Hilton on Apr. 14 2022, making it the longest hotel lockout in B.C. history. Locked out workers include room attendants, front desk agents, laundry attendants, kitchen staff and other hourly workers. These are difficult jobs often including long days […]

The picket signs at libraries across Vancouver Island say, “If librarians are loud, you know it’s bad”. These librarians are members of the British Columbia Government Employees Union Local 702 (BCGEU-702). They announced job action on March 3 with the word “strike” no longer shushed or simply whispered.  The librarians have been working with no […]

As of Saturday, Jan. 29 transit operators with Unifor Local 114 have been on strike in British Columbia’s Sea to Sky region, which includes the communities of Whistler, Squamish, and Pemberton Valley. The strike notice went out on Jan. 21, with 80 workers taking job action as of 5 a.m. Saturday. Unifor has said that […]

British Columbia has been in a housing crisis for years, with high rents, poor living conditions, homelessness and evictions being the norm. A recent study by the University of British Columbia analyzed data from 2013 to 2018 and found that evictions were the reason for 10.5 per cent of renters moving in B.C. This is […]

The NDP leadership likes to present themselves as supporters of Indigenous people, but in the Wet’suwet’en struggle the sad reality is that the B.C. NDP is primarily responsible for this violation of Indigenous rights. The federal NDP is not much better, issuing equivocal statements in order to camouflage the actions of their provincial counterparts. It […]

Torrential rains have caused devastation across British Columbia. Hundreds of people have been trapped by landslides, thousands have been forced to evacuate, and hundreds of thousands have gone without electricity. The city of Vancouver, the second largest port in North America, has been cut off from the rest of Canada. But this biblical-scale flooding is […]

Members of the Gidimt’en clan of the Wet’suwet’en nation enforced an eviction order against Coastal GasLink (CGL) on Sunday, Nov. 14, ordering the corporation to cease operations and leave Wet’suwet’en territory. The eviction order was originally issued by the hereditary chiefs of all five clans of the Wet’suwet’en in January 2020. In February of that […]

A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has denied an application by Teal Cedar Products Ltd. to extend the injunction against blockades by protestors of old-growth logging in the Fairy Creek watershed on Vancouver Island. Teal Cedar was requesting a 12-month extension, but the court ruling means the injunction has now expired. This is a huge […]

Old-growth forests in British Columbia are under attack. With the forestry industry facing a crisis, the capitalists have turned to lucrative logging of old growth to make a quick buck. In response, environmentalists and Indigenous activists have set up blockades to protect the Fairy Creek watershed. The police have clamped down, arresting hundreds. The labour […]