BC Liberals offer nothing to unions

The last time the BC Liberals spoke to unions about their plans, it was a promise to public sector unions not to tear up contracts...and the rest is history.
If this man and his gang of thugs and vandals get back into power, unions will suffer...he will finish what he started.
He is under pressure from his corporate bosses to scrap the anti-scab laws that somehow survived from the NDP's days; they want the min. wage frozen forever; and relax health and safety regulations (even further than they're already rolled back).

"My goal is to empower the

"My goal is to empower the [union] members and I think we did that," Campbell

He empowered HEU members to take a 15% wage cut and find temporary jobs in the private sector. In the Kootenay's many of these people are working at 2 or 3 different facilities, sometime commuting between 2 cities to try and make ends meet.

He empowered the previously Unionized fallers in the Forest Industry to become private contractors resulting in more deaths to Fallers than we've ever seen.

He empowered our Youth to work for $6.00/hr and gave them the awesome opportunity to start work as early at 12.

Gordon is truly visionary, or is that delusional?

What a Farce!

Campbell appealing to union members for support! The eight Liberal years have been an absolute disaster for working people in all respects - from the ability to organise to weaskened health and safety regulations - to the complete undermining of employment standards - to the attack on apprenticeships and skills training - and so forth and onwards.

This is a government of the rich, by the rich and for the rich. Any working person who has bbeen paying attention knows that.

Workers need help

In this province as I understand there are many injured workers on welfare and this is a certainty. Because the system is set to fail for the worker as Campbell Ministries share the rewards of turning down workers.
I just had the pleasure of seeing my first Worker's Comp Appeal which set precedent just pay off $300,000 which we wondered if he would still be alive before he got it.
And its a shame that workers are forced to train and work for anything else but a living wage as survival in the big city is tough when you can't afford rent.
And living on the streets is not the answer as could prove troublesome for British Columbians as how do you guarantee the homeless as they are all over the place? I can see it all now.

It speaks volumns on Gordo's

It speaks volumns on Gordo's attitude towards workers in general when we have 160 people killed in the workplace here in BC last year. Just don't get me started on how these bandits in Victoria have made a semi-dysfunctional WCB into a fully dysfunctional Worksafe BC.

Grit

Yes just remember that as I say a vote for the Lieberals is a vote for the grit party leader who took the grit out of InteGRITy. All we stand to lose is our Province Viva Vancouver Island. It should be its own Province.

Joking, right?

James, Campbell Make Their Pitches to Trade Union Members

Campbell pitches to trade union members.
After all the lieberal party and their friends have done to ordinary workers in this province? Union or not. Tearing up contracts, breaking apart WCB now Worksafe BC rules and regs, training wages, (first to the bottom), bringing in foreign workers, (if paid decent the businesses wouldn't have to recruit) etc. OMG, this is a joke right?

BC Union MEMBERSHIP... Political Support...

The last public opinion poll that I recall having a "union-household" political party preference question was two years ago when Ipsos released its quarterly April 17, 2007 BC opinion poll.

Unfortunately, the link requires a subscription, but "majority" union household support was for the Libs, which received major media coverage at the time.

http://www.ipsos-na.com/news/pressrelease.cfm?id=3445

And the April 17, 2007 Ipso spread was 17% at the time in favour of the Libs.

The exact same spread as the latest Mustel poll, which was bang-on (a 5% spread) with its final BC election poll in May, 2005 compared to the actual election (a 4% spread).

Of course, there are those here who believe that the results from Angus Reid Strategies' polls are akin to Christ's second coming! :D

Apprenticeships

Campbell gutted trades apprenticeship standards. It is perfectly legal for contractors to have 1 journeyman on site for every 10 apprentices. Prior to his government it was a 1 to 1 ratio.

This leads to poorer safety on jobs, poorer workmanship, and poorer training of trades people. Mentorship in the trades is basically a thing of the past. It is sink or swim these days for apprentices.

BC. Liberals big projects

Gordon Campbell and his BC liberals, who do they really represent and,
Who really benefits from the Campbell legislative changes made in British Columbia.

1st who do they really represent ---Well here’s a few thing’s I’ve noticed -----

The mover’s and shaker’s of Vancouver and,
----ctv global and chek.

A couple of Vancouver new’s paper’s----P3 friend’s----Health care for profit friends.

Lock up Hydro for his run of river friend’s----Styme fishery’s for his salmon fish farm friend’s.

Education ---close schools ---force children to ride school buses from dark to dark.

Then charge parents $200.00 a child to ride the bus.

Legislative changes to Abattoir kills family farm profits and makes a joke out of the 100 mile diet.

Have NOT Province - Libs

The vast bulk of BC's unions will agree: the BC Liberals have turned BC into a "Have Not" Province.

Hard-working (Average Joe and Jane) Union Members have NOT been treated fairly by the Liberals. Campbell has used Draconian legislation and tactics against many working people. The Campbell government unilaterally tore up binding legal contracts between the province and many of its employees.

Campbell lowered Tax rates (which gave the wealthiest people more money) while instituting many user fees for public services that formerly came out of taxes. In effect, this created proportionally higher tax increases for working people struggling the hardest to make ends meet.

Campbell reduced services:

Fewer courthouses so that average working people have had to travel further (often prohitively further) in attempts to seek reparation from the actions of wealthier people and the government.

Fewer Hospitals.

Fewer long-term care beds for an aging population.

Fewer probation officers, social workers, child and youth workers, teachers and mental health workers.

Public safety has been eroded while at the same time services to help victims has been reduced:
More Violent crime
More alcohol consumption and venues to sell it.
More drug abuse
More gambling
More poverty - especially for women and children

Less openess and accountability by government: Greater difficulty gaining access to government documents. 230 PAB personnel monitoring and managing the "truth" - Ha! Gordon "it's before the courts" Campbell, Stonewally, Patrick Kinsella, Ken Dobell, John Les, Basi and Virk, Mark Marissen, etc.

Lowest minimum wage in the country while having the highest real estate costs and the highest wages for MLAs in the country.

We've lost our rivers, our railway, much of our gas and electric companies, our wild salmon, hopitals closed infavour of for-profit P3s, and our public forest land.

A Campbell three-pete

http://thetyee.ca/Views/2009/04/20/GordonCampbell/

Lie to me, I promise I'll believe

"My goal is to empower the [union] members and I think we did that," Campbell told Trade Talk."

Was this before or after he fired 8000 HEU hospital workers, and sold their jobs at a premium to a French hotel agency under a cloud in Europe?

Before or after he offered to throw teachers in jail for fighting for their students' right to effective learning conditions in their schools?

What a crock! Who would believe such blatant bull? You'd have to have spent the last 10 years in a box.