BC FEDERATION OF LABOUR CALLING FOR THAW ON MINIMUM WAGE FREEZE ON IT'S 8TH ANNIVERSARY
Nov 1, 2009
HE'S CALLING IT A DISGRACE-----THIS FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE BC FEDERATION OF LABOUR ABOUT THE FACT THAT IT HAS BEEN 8 YEARS SINCE BC RAISED IT'S MINIMUM WAGE
JIM SINCLAIR SAYS THE MINIMUM WAGE HAS GONE FROM THE HIGHEST IN THE COUNTRY TO THE LOWEST----WHILE TAXPAYERS COSTS HAVE MORE THAN DOUBLED
HE SAYS TAXPAYERS WANT PREMIER GORDON CAMPBELL TO HEAR THIS MESSAGE ON THE 8TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MINIMUM WAGE FREEZE
"they would like Gordon Campbell to celebrate a little less, when faced with difficult times. To start worrying a little more about why we have the highest child poverty rate in the country, and why we have the lowest minimum wage in the country, and they would like him to maybe not take the 100 percent wage and benefit increase that he took for himself, and maybe raise the minimum wage for the first time in 8 years"
SINCLAIR SAYS THE FEDERATIONS POLLING SHOWS 75 % OF BRITISH COLUMBIANS SUPPORT RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE
- ANDREA BOYES
