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THE BC LIBERALS AND A DISABILITY JOBS PLAN THAT DOES NOT DELIVER
By Daniel Tseghay
On October 3rd, the BC Liberals announced a Job Creation Plan that they claim would benefit people with disabilities. The project, in alliance with the Rick Hansen Foundation, WorkBC Employment Services Centres, and the Victoria Disability Resource Centre, would temporarily employ 14 people as “access assistants”. “Participants will complete about 90 on-site accessibility surveys of medium- and large-sized buildings and community locations in Victoria and the Lower Mainland,” reads the press release. Read more!
R&F PODCAST EPISODE 5 - FIGHT FOR $15 IN SASKATCHEWAN
Rankandfile.ca’s West Coast Correspondent Daniel Tseghay interviews Dennel Pickering about the Fight for $15 movement that is getting underway in Saskatchewan. Read more!
HALIFAX MUNICIPAL CANDIDATES SUPPORT FAIR WAGES, BOYCOTT SCAB REPORTERS
By Robert DeVet
Labour issues have become part of the Halifax municipal election in more ways than one. A substantial number of candidates promised not to talk to Chronicle Herald scab reporters and made a public commitment to a living wage for city workers and contractors. Read more!
SUPPORTING GUYANA'S SUGAR WORKERS
By Kevin Brice-Lall
The same ties which link companies from Canada to Guyana don’t just link those companies exploitative practices—like Canadian owned Omai Gold Mine which was responsible for Guyana’s worst environmental disaster—they can also link together the struggles against those practices. Read more!
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