Affiliate & Community Campaigns
In addition to our own advocacy and and organizing around the needs and demands of workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, many of our affiliates and community allies are running campaigns on a variety of issues. Here is a list, please lend your support!
AFFILIATES
Amalgamated Transit Union: Stand With Canadian Transit Workers
BC Government and Service Employees’ Union: Stop Rent, Evictions, and Utility Shut-Offs During COVID-19 (with LeadNow) / End for Profit Seniors Care in BC / Thank a BC Worker
Hospital Employees’ Union: Support ALL Health Care Workers
Service Employees International Union Local 2 – Justice for Janitors: Protect Working Families Amid Coronavirus Outbreak, From Invisible to Essential
United Food and Commercial Workers: Help Protect Food Processing Workers!
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1518: Front Line Workers Deserve Protection, Childcare For All Front Line Workers
UNITE HERE Local 40: Hospitality Workers Need Money Now!, Put Workers First. Protect Hospitality Workers’ Health and Recall Rights Now!
BCGEU and UFCW 1518: Home Care and Social Service Workers Deserve Recognition
All of our affiliates are hard at work representing their members and assisting them in this difficult time. This list includes only public campaigns, i.e. those in which members of the general public are being asked to take an action in relation to.
CANADIAN LABOUR CONGRESS
Every Worker Deserves Paid Sick Leave
Tell the Banks: We Need Credit Card Relief Now!
Tell the CPhA: Waive extra dispensing fees at pharmacies
The feds need to protect pensions
COMMUNITY
$10 a Day Childcare Campaign: Take Action for $10aDay in BC’s Recovery
Abundant Transit BC: Fund transit as an essential service
BC Health Coalition: Strengthen public health care now!
Broadbent Institute: No Corporate Bailouts for Tax Dodgers and Profiteers
BC Poverty Reduction Coalition: Emergency Response for Justice
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives: Don’t force charities and non-profits into crisis before wage subsidy kicks in
Foodsters United: Email your MP today to demand removal of barriers to CERB for precarious workers!
Migrant Rights Network: COVID19 Response Must Leave No One Behind
Migrant Workers Centre: Amnesty for Undocumented Workers
Retail Action Network / BC Employment Standards Coalition: Paid sick days for all!
Vancouver Tenants Union: Rent Moratorium, Together We Stay
Warehouse Workers Centre: COVID-19 at Amazon: Give workers the health and safety protections they deserve!
OTHER
Provide Masks and Goggles for Screening Officers
NOTE: This list will be updated periodically. It may not be exhaustive. If you have a campaign you would like us to consider adding, please send it to us at president@vdlc.ca
