The working-class history of British Colombia Province
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- Workplace fatalities take devastating toll,
new B.C. WCB report shows
- Workers' Compensation Board of British Columbia,
press release, 28 November 1999. The Workers'
Compensation Board of British Columbia releases a ten-year
study of work-related fatalities,
Lost Lives:
Work-related deaths in B.C,
to increase awareness of
the reality of deaths on the job and to encourage action
that will eliminate workplace deaths in the province.
- The nursing crisis in B.C.: How we got into
this mess
- By Patricia Bailey, Vancouver Sun, 19 July
2001. Reporter Patricia Bailey examines the complex
circumstances that led to the critical shortage of nurses
and turns to the experts for some solutions. It was
believed that medical advances and the move from hospital
to community-based care would reduce the length of
hospital stays and the need for acute-care
nurses. Nurses' working conditions.
- ‘He was the best of who we
are’: Tribute Sunday to gritty labour leader Homer
Stevens
- By Stephen Hume, Vancouver Sun, Saturday 19
October 2002. Gritty labour leader, proud civil
libertarian, fearless political activist, passionate
warrior for social justice, revered fisherman,
environmentalist before the term was invented, devoted
husband, father and grandfather, Homer Stevens has been
described as the epitome of the truly indigenous British
Columbian.
- Unions living in ‘darkest
hours’
- By Michael McCullough, Vancouver Sun,
Tuesday 02 September 2003. B.C. Federation of Labour
president Jim Sinclair warns that privatization,
contracting-out, threaten labour movement. Also the
erosion of collective bargaining, poverty and stalled
economic growth.