Premier Christy Clark might want to pick out a nice vase. Tomorrow she'll receive a bouquet of flowers and a request to meet from two BC Hydro electricity meter readers. Jaret Homenuk and Thomas Ma represent nearly 400 other meter readers facing job losses when smart meters are installed in every home in B.C. next year.

Homenuk and Ma will deliver the bouquet on behalf of a group calling itself the Fightin' 400 – meter readers seeking a "just transition" to good, environmentally sustainable jobs after the smart meters put them out of work.

A press release put out today by the Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union, Local 378 (COPE 378), offered a heads up on the meter readers' 10:45 a.m. visit to the downtown Vancouver cabinet offices, saying:

"Just transition is a framework to transition workers to new, green jobs so they are not displaced as our economy grows and changes with environmental technologies.

"Spring flowers were chosen because spring symbolizes hope and renewal, and because meter readers are watching the first spring flowers bloom along their routes in the many communities across the province in which they work."

David Beers is editor of The Tyee.