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Write a letter to fight for labour protections ami Write a letter to fight for labour protections amid extreme environmental disasters! Employment law was not written to anticipate a rise in extreme environmental disasters. Last summer, thousands of workers around British Columbia struggled under increasing extreme weather events such as wildfires, heat domes, and floods; and the coming years will continue to see an increase in unsafe work conditions for precarious and marginalized workers on the frontlines of the climate crisis. By taking a more active approach to enforcement to ensure workers health safety, and consider health-based evidence rather than comfort level threshold when implementing heat related protections within the context of a Maximum Temperature Policy; WorkSafe BC would be able to push countless employers across the province to abide by existing regulations while encouraging countless workers to stand up for their rights. Letter linked in our bio, and on our website. #ClimateJusticeisLabourJustice
Our first session, Exploring How Extreme Heat, Wil Our first session, Exploring How Extreme Heat, Wildfires, and Floods Impact Workers: How Standing in the Walk-in Freezer is a Workplace Issue is happening just days before World Day for Decent Work. In light of this, we will be discussing how decent work is not just a labour justice issue, it is about addressing various intersections including climate justice. In this first session, we will hear about how extreme weather impacts workers at work and beyond. Our guest speaker, Izzy Adachi, will speak on these firsthand experiences and make the intersection between climate justice and labour justice, come to light! Together, through conversation, we will share experiences of how climate change impacts us and strategize ways to move forward as a collective. Registration link in bio! #climatejusticeislabourjustice #climateaction #labourjustice #bclabour
This last year, under the Justice Delayed is Justi This last year, under the Justice Delayed is Justice Denied campaign, the Worker Solidarity Network has been working towards reforming the Employment Standard Branch to an accessible, accommodating, correct, effective, and fair. This culminated in us successfully campaigning for $12 million dollars in additional funding to the ESB. Now, we want to ensure the allocated $12 million dollars fights against wage theft and unfair procedural practices. This includes an ESB that makes it easy for workers to access their rights, offers proactive enforcement, encourages exposure of violations through whistleblowers and third party complaints, and resolves complaints in a timely manner to the satisfaction of wronged workers. **We need to mobilize to ensure our government doesn't make changes that directly oppose what we have been organizing towards this past year under the Justice Delayed is Justice Denied campaign.**To that end, we are convening an Emergency Phone Zap to share our collective response to the government, and to ensure they know Justice Delayed is Justice Denied! #JusticeDelayedisJusticeDenied #BCLabour #WorkersRights
Interested in understanding how climate justice an Interested in understanding how climate justice and worker justice intersect? Want to organize your workplace but don't know where to begin? As temperatures rise, workers do, too! We are hosting a four-part workshop series to connect with workers, hear from community organizers, and promote our climate and labour justice digital toolkit. These workshops are open to anyone interested in joining to learn more about our campaign, share stories, and ask questions about your rights at work! Workshop 1: Exploring how extreme heat, wildfires, and floods impact workers (Oct 4) Workshop 2: Let's talk about refusing unsafe work! (Oct 17) Workshop 3: Navigating mental health during climate crises (Nov 8) Workshop 4: Tips and tricks for initiating conversations with co-workers (Nov 22) To register, follow the links in our bio!
It was quite the rally weekend! Some snapshots of It was quite the rally weekend! Some snapshots of both Vancouver and Victoria #GlobalClimateStrikes this past Friday 🌎🌱 Climate Justice is Labour Justice!
The Worker Solidarity Network stands in solidarity The Worker Solidarity Network stands in solidarity for Status for ALL! We took to the streets yesterday in both Vancouver and Victoria to demand permanent resident #StatusforAll for all migrants. Send a message to Trudeau to act now: StatusForAll.ca Thank you @migrantrightsca for organizing this nation wide action! Photo credit (Vancouver photos): Michael YC Tseng @horizontal.deer (Victoria photos): Liz Cronin #BCLabour #WorkersRights #WorkerSolidarity
The Worker Solidarity Network was at UVic's club d The Worker Solidarity Network was at UVic's club days this past week! So great to meet new faces, thanks to all that stopped by our table 🌎
More outreach photos from these past few weeks 🫶🥹💌 Wanna get involved with WSN but not sure where to start? Join us at one of our outreach sessions this fall, happening every other Thursday! Outreach often involves going around town with WSN staff and members to poster or flyer for upcoming campaigns or events. Sometimes we hand out workers rights' materials like brochure toolkits, and on special holidays: candygrams! (Stay tuned.) Plus, you can get to know some of the folks at the Worker Solidarity Network! Schedules are for both Victoria and Vancouver (outreach happens at the same time at our two offices). We've scheduled these sessions at alternating times to accommodate different work schedules. Email Niki at niki@workersolidarity.ca if you're interested. Hope to see you soon!
Wanna get involved with WSN but not sure where to Wanna get involved with WSN but not sure where to start? Join us at one of our outreach sessions this fall, happening every other Thursday! Outreach often involves going around town with WSN staff and members to poster or flyer for upcoming campaigns or events. Sometimes we hand out workers rights' materials like brochure toolkits, and on special holidays: candygrams! (Stay tuned.) Plus, you can get to know some of the folks at the Worker Solidarity Network! Schedules are for both Victoria and Vancouver (outreach happens at the same time at our two offices). We've scheduled these sessions at alternating times to accommodate different work schedules. Email Niki at niki@workersolidarity.ca if you're interested. Hope to see you soon!
Send a letter! Support #StatusForAll! Amidst wild Send a letter! Support #StatusForAll! Amidst wildfires that are continuing into the fall, the Worker Solidarity Network is sending letters to Marc Miller (Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship) and Randy Boissonnault (Associate Minister of Finance) to implement Status for All and emergency EI measures for migrant workers. For migrant workers, whose work is tied to their stay in Canada, displacement as a result of wildfires impacts not only their ability to find work and their source of income, but further precarity in their status in Canada. The current way of obtaining an open work permit is difficult; workers have to find a new employer who is willing to undergo a Labour Market Impact Assessment, await the results, and apply to get a new permit. This is expensive, time consuming, and strenuous – with migrant workers often facing unemployment as a result of the slow process. Help us demand open work permits to migrant workers without restrictions and full regularization. Click the link in our bio to write to your local Ministers. Thank you to @mwc.bc and @povreductionbc for leading this call! #BCWildfires #StatusforAll #BCLabour #WorkerSolidarity
Have you been curious about unionizing? What actua Have you been curious about unionizing? What actually goes on in this process and how can you keep yourself protected as a worker? Our next Organizing 101 workshop will be facilitated by the union @liuna1611! In this session, we'll break down what the Labour Code actually means for B.C. workers, as well as what unions are, how they operate, how they're certified, and more. This workshop will go over: - A brief union history - Unionization + certification process - Worker protections under the Code - and SO much more! Link in bio to register! A zoom link will be sent after registration, and all registrants will be notified of the second part of this workshop in our series upon completion of the first one.
Did you know? - 77% of workers reported that the Did you know? - 77% of workers reported that their workplace does not have adequate protective measures when it comes to extreme weather - 84% of workers experience compromised mental well-being when extreme weather hits - 77% of workers experience amplified physical health concerns when extreme weather hits This summer has been rife with wildfires and wildfire smoke, affecting people and especially frontline workers in their everyday. Workers have rights, even during wildfires! We're calling on the provincial government for additional breaks on shift, a maximum working temperature policy, free and reliable public transit, 15 paid sick days, and more. Check out our recent report “Can’t Stand the Heat? Get Out of the Kitchen!” for an extensive list of demands. Link in bio! #BCwildfires #BCLabour #Workersrights #LabourJustice #Climatejustice #ClimateJusticeisLabourJustice
Come to an important, ad-hoc Worker Wednesday, and Come to an important, ad-hoc Worker Wednesday, and prevent unfair changes to the Employment Standards Act! We paused Worker Wednesday for the summer... but when worker rights are threatened, whether it's winter or summer, rain or shine, snow or sun, it falls upon us as workers to organize! This past year, WSN under our #JusticeDenied campaign has been working towards reforming the Employment Standard Branch (ESB) to an accessible, accommodating, correct, effective, and fair. After months of campaigning, $12 million dollars in additional funding to the ESB was won by workers, for workers! BUT, with 12 million dollars worth of additional resources, government may make unfair changes to the Employment Standards Act that is not in the best interest of workers. Now, we need to mobilize to ensure our government doesn't make changes that directly oppose what we have been organizing towards this past year under the Justice Delayed is Justice Denied campaign. To that end, we are convening an Emergency Worker Wednesday to strategize for a collective response. Join us for an important, Emergency Worker Wednesday on August 16th, 6:00pm to 7:00pm, to help us prevent workers rights from being rolled back in BC. If you are unable to make it, we encourage you to register regardless, as we will be inviting all participants to join an emergency phone zap on August 31st to respond to the proposed changes. Link in bio to register!
Today, the Worker Solidarity Network is proud to a Today, the Worker Solidarity Network is proud to announce that our Justice Delayed, Justice Denied campaign is BACK! Our campaign follows the monumental $12 MILLION budget increase for the ESB that was announced in February as a result of tireless organizing by workers under our last Justice Delayed is Justice Denied campaign. $12 million dollars won by workers, for workers! But we cannot stop there! We as workers must ensure that the allocated $12 Million dollars supports: fighting against wage theft, combating unfair working practices, and ensuring justice for workers. As a worker, you may have never needed the Branch. But there are thousands of workers who have and if the day comes and you too face wage theft, you deserve to know the Branch will be in your corner. Workers deserve an ESB that is: Accessible, Accommodating, Correct, Effective, and Fair. This is only the beginning of our rebooted campaign. Stay tuned for more actions to come; in the meantime, check out our campaign website linked in our bio. #WorkersRights #Labourjustice #BCLab #BCLabour #JusticeDelayedIsJusticeDenied #WSN #WorkerSolidarity
WSN joined the rally last Friday, in front of @dav WSN joined the rally last Friday, in front of @davidebybc’s office to call on the @bcndp for a #FrackFreeBC!
We're back with our third instalment of our Organi We're back with our third instalment of our Organizing 101 Workshop Series. This time: it's about retaliation, and what you can do about it! Have you been missing wages or unjust working conditions and been afraid to speak out because of your boss? The fear of retaliation from employers is a major barrier for precarious workers wanting to pursue an Employment Standards Branch complain, unionization, speaking out against awful or illegal conditions, or speaking about their working conditions amongst themselves. This interactive workshop that includes an example exercise will help workers to identify and protect themselves from retaliation, know what courses of action they may take, and understand what resources there are to support them through retaliation. No prior experience or familiarity is needed in order to attend and benefit from this presentation. Zoom link will be sent after registration -- register with the link in our bio!
This week remembers the 2 years that have passed s This week remembers the 2 years that have passed since the 2021 B.C. heat dome, one of the deadliest weather events to date. Worker protections in B.C. still have a long way to go when it comes to extreme weather events, particularly with precarious workers facing the worst repercussions of climate change. While we fight for better protections for workers, we've put together a handy organizing toolkit for climate and labour justice. In this toolkit, you'll find: -climate concerns for workers -know your worker rights -how to have climate conversations with coworkers -solidarity with coworkers -dealing with climate anxiety and more! We also have resources about summer heat tips for outdoor workers and legal factsheets for workers, all available on our resources page. Go to the link in our bio to download or head over to workersolidarity.ca/resources to grab a copy! #ClimateJusticeisLabourJustice #RaisetheBar
Clips from our Climate-Labour rally on Saturday! T Clips from our Climate-Labour rally on Saturday! Thank you so much to all of our members who came to support and add your say about what changes workers need to see. As temperatures rise, workers rise! #RaisetheBar
So you've recognized that you're experiencing viol So you've recognized that you're experiencing violations in your rights as a worker and want to assert your rights... but what now? Not to fear! This workshop is specifically to address how these questions, and empower self-represented complainants or prospective complainants, and any workers really, to advocate for themselves effectively and improve the outcome of their complaints. The process for submitting a complaint with the Employment Standards Branch can feel daunting, unclear, and full of legal terms that are hard to understand, but we're here to help! No prior experience or familiarity is needed in order to attend and benefit from this presentation. Come join us online on July 4 at 6 PM, registration link in bio for the Zoom link! #bclab #workersrights #bclabour
DEMAND 9 (final one!) for Climate-Labour Justice: DEMAND 9 (final one!) for Climate-Labour Justice: Enforced Health & Safety Regulations In this project, 87% of workers reported that heatwaves impact them the most out of all extreme weather events. Extreme rising temperatures can increase new hazards, and it is employers’ responsibility and obligation to reduce and remove the risk by conducting heat stress assessments and implementing heat stress exposure plans. In this study, 97% of workers (all but one) identified specific protective measures that are needed to ensure worker health and safety during extreme weather events. The following list outlines existing measures under the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation that must be enforced to mitigate worker health and safety risks during extreme weather: - Flexible and breathable dress code; - Accommodation for hydration; - Sustainable cooling systems in the workplace; - Training on evacuation procedures; - Well-coordinated emergency communication channels; - Workers should not work alone; - Appropriate work-rest cycles; - Schedule working hours to minimize heat exposure; - Enforce employer workplace safety inspections. Come out to our rally TOMORROW, Saturday June 17 at noon in front of the Legislative Assembly of BC in Victoria where we'll launch our Climate and Labour campaign and demand better protections for workers! Event details linked in bio. Climate Justice is Labour Justice! #RaisetheBar #climatejusticeislabourjustice #bcpoli #bclab
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