New Democrat leader Adrian Dix has urged Premier Christy Clark to work together with him to protect 350 jobs lost in the lower mainland due to the shutdown of Aveos Fleet Performance Inc., the company that provides maintenance services to …
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REALITY CHECK: Liberal record on jobs hardly worth crowing about
Worsening job quality, stagnant wages and increased inequality have been the hallmarks of the Liberal government in British Columbia since 2001. A modest increase in full-time employment has the Liberals claiming victory, but the real story is that British Columbians …
COASTAL STAKEHOLDERS AGREE: B.C. LOGS SHOULD CREATE B.C. JOBS
New Democrat Forestry Committee Wraps Successful First Leg of Province-Wide Tour VICTORIA –Island and coastal business owners, workers and other stakeholders agree that the dramatic increase in raw log exports is resulting in a loss of business and fewer jobs, …
STRATEGIES NEEDED TO REDUCE RAW LOG EXPORTS, CREATE JOBS IN B.C.
New Democrat Forestry Committee Begins Tour With Stops on Vancouver Island and Sunshine Coast Beginning Thursday VICTORIA –As raw log exports continue to skyrocket, the opposition New Democrats are calling for more strategies to ensure that B.C. resources create jobs …
LIBERAL “JOBS PLAN” ALREADY LOSING STEAM
Mill closes permanently and tax panel turns into ghost panel VANCOUVER – The latest pieces of the premier’s “jobs plan” to fall apart reinforce concerns that the province is adrift and that the Liberals have no plan to support families, …
B.C. SHEDDING JOBS AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY SUFFERING DUE TO LIBERALS’ SLOW PST TRANSITION
VANCOUVER – While the Liberal premier heads off on a trip to China without any clear plan or set of targets, British Columbia is shedding jobs, and construction has stalled due to the Liberals’ sluggish transition back to the PST. …
REALITY CHECK: LIBERAL JOBS PLAN MISSING KEY COMPONENTS
The Liberals’ jobs strategy may have a catchy title, but a closer look at the plan that they call “thorough” and “comprehensive,”shows it’s missing some key components. The premier said the jobs plan would involve “every region in every sector …
JOBS PLAN LEAVES OUT INVESTMENT IN PEOPLE, KEY SECTORS SUCH AS FORESTRY, TOURISM AND THE GREEN ECONOMY, SAYS DIX
VANCOUVER – Christy Clark's jobs plan lacks clear job targets, leaves vital investments in people out of the equation and fails to offer anything for many sectors such as forestry, tourism and the green economy, said B.C. New Democrat Leader …
LIBERALS CONTINUE TO EXPORT B.C. JOBS
VICTORIA— New Democrats are calling on the Liberal government to get serious about creating jobs with B.C. wood in the face of a more than 50 per cent increase in raw log exports. “Mills in our communities have been dismantled …
REALITY CHECK: New Jobs Ministry Must Make Up For Dismal B.C. Liberal Job Record To Date
Since Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberals first started breaking their word to British Columbians a decade ago, B.C. families have suffered from years of job losses and stagnant wages. Here is a snapshot: Job losses:Since 2008, B.C. has lost …