labour
What a fairer BC migrant farm worker program could look like
This summer, The Tyee published a three-part series about exploitation of migrant workers on B.C.…
BC Premier David Eby’s porta-potty agenda
There are portable toilets that still haunt Peter White. There was the one at the…
No sheriffs to protect courts in BC? Here’s why
The union representing B.C.’s sheriffs says they should get an extraordinary pay raise to address…
What to do with WorkSafeBC’s giant pot of money?
BC’s Workers’ Compensation Board has a conundrum most would envy: what do you do with…
What’s ahead for BC gig workers
As the latest round of consultations on protections for app-based drivers and food delivery workers…
A case of bad apples, or a rotten orchard? A look at migrant labour in BC
For more than three years, Jeffry Hernández supported his family in Guatemala by packing cucumbers…
BC shuts down its fair wage watchdog
The B.C. government is shutting down a commission it created to improve pay for the…
Foreign worker claims Kamloops restaurant underpaid, pressured her to get abortion
A temporary worker from the Philippines is taking her former Kamloops employer to court, claiming…
No clear winner in arbitrator’s decision on overhaul of Kamloops bylaw
The City of Kamloops will have to go back to negotiations with the public employees…
A crane collapsed. Five people died. After two years, no answers
Almost two years after his son was killed on the job Steven Zook is no…
Inside the long, strange labour battle by BC actors
The actors in Ellie Harvie’s union count on commercials to pay their bills. But for more…
PUNCHED ON THE JOB: When B.C. gig workers are denied basic safety support
Aman Sood was supposed to drive the man in the yellow construction vest to McCallum…
Wrongful dismissal suit launched against Penticton’s Ooknakane Friendship Centre
The former Ooknakane Friendship Centre executive director claims the non-profit wrongfully dismissed him and damaged…
B.C. sex workers on making their lives better
Sex work is the most fulfilling job Rae has ever had. Colleagues and clients in…
B.C. to tackle the deadliest workplace killer
When Lee Loftus was 10, he remembers his father coming home through the back door,…