Visit https://www.ndp.ca/team to find your candidate and contact their campaign office to volunteer.

Can’t make it on election day? Your help will make a difference any day between now and then, whether in-person or via remote phone canvassing.

We also still have two labour canvasses hosted jointly with New Westminster and District Labour Council as follows:

Canvass for Phil Klapwyk, Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge
Friday, September 17
Starting at 5:30pm
22386 119 Ave, Maple Ridge
RSVP to nwdlc@shawcable.com

Canvass for Anjali Appadurai, Vancouver Granville
Saturday, September 18
Starting at 5:30pm
5590 Victoria Dr., Vancouver
RSVP to office@vdlc.ca

Together we can ensure there are strong voices in parliament for workers rights, healthcare, climate justice, reconciliation, and tax fairness.

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Read our letter to Minister Dix, Minister Robinson, and Dr. Bonnie Henry:

Image credit: Vancouver Tenants Union.

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Grocery and retail workers are doing their part to keep us all safe when we need to shop, it should be incumbent on us all to do the same. UFCW 1518 is asking Dr. Bonnie Henry to implement a mask mandate for grocery and retail stores. 

Read more about their campaign, and send a letter of support HERE. 

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The United States is showing us what happens when we turn to blame, ignore our problems, and act like everyone is in it for themselves. We must reject that, take what we learned from the pandemic, and prepare for Canada’s future. Here’s our plan to move Forward Together:

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The VDLC has been calling for urgent action to address this problem since April, and is joining with the Canadian Labour Congress in continuing the press for help that is needed in order weather the COVID-19 pandemic now, and in the event of a second wave. 

TAKE ACTION

CLC Petition: Municipalities Need Help

CLC Letter Writing Tool: Municipalities Need Funding

VDLC Petition: Save Transit and City Services

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The Just Recovery Coalition is “calling on the City of Vancouver to prioritize lessening existing inequalities, respecting Indigenous rights, and tackling the climate emergency.”

Read the Just Recovery Coalition Joint Statement HERE.

Join us in working for a just recovery and a better city post-pandemic.

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At the May 2020 regular meeting, the VDLC adopted the following motion on this issue: 

Subject: Long Term Care Homes

BECAUSE policies and legislation brought in by the former BC Liberal government starting in 2002 resulted in widespread privatization and contracting out in the long-term care sector; and

BECAUSE these policies and legislation opened the door for many long-term care operators to opt out of the common master agreement that covered all funded long-term care homes and hospitals in 2001; and

BECAUSE this master agreement provided for standard wages and working conditions for care home staff regardless of whether it was operated by a health authority, a non- profit group or a for-profit company; and

BECAUSE There is now a wide range of wages in the long-term care sector, for example some care aides earn as much as $7 an hour less than they would under the master agreement; and

BECAUSE this discrepancy in wages and working conditions has resulted in a critical recruitment and retention crisis that was undermining the quality of care for B.C. seniors, and increasing workloads for care staff to dangerous levels prior to COVID-19 pandemic; and

BECAUSE Health care workers required two and more jobs in order make ends meet which became a significant challenge to cohort workers to a single site to prevent the transmission of the disease. Our government recognized the inequity as a barrier and agreed to level up the wages to minimize the economic impact on workers as the orders rolled out; and

BECAUSE the Health Services of CUPE – the Hospital Employees’ Union – is campaigning for a permanent restoration of common wage standards in the long-term care sector to address the recruitment and retention crisis, improve care for seniors and make workplaces safer; and

BECAUSE the BC Government and Service Employees’ Union is also campaigning on this issue, calling on the BC government to phase-out for profit residential seniors’ care in B.C. in order to stabilize working conditions, ensure quality care, and provider safer conditions especially given the spread of COVID-19 in these facilities,

THE VANCOUVER AND DISTRICT LABOUR COUNCIL WILL join with the Hospital Employees’ Union (the BC Health Services Division of CUPE) and BC Government and Service Employees’ Union in lobbying the B.C. government to permanently restore wages and working conditions to a common standard across the government-funded long-term care sector, and move toward public not-for-profit ownership and operation of all long-term care facilities.

Visit the following links for more information, and to take action: 

Hospital Employees’ Union – Care Can’t Wait

BC Government and Service Employees’ Union – Seniors Deserve Better

Canadian Labour Congress – Canada’s unions call for overhaul of long-term care system

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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

Pharmacare: If not now, when?

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

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