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BC Minimum Wage Increase?

burnabybob
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September 30, 2010 - 2:13am

Radio stations in Vancouver reporting Labour Minister Murray Coell telling delegates at UBCM convention in Whistler BC Libs are going to raise the BC minimum wage. Could this be a side effect of the anti-HST campaign? Coell is on the recall list...


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Fidel
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Joined: Apr 29 2004
September 30, 2010 - 10:30am
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British Columbia: 'The province that doesn't look after its kids'

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“We lead the pack in child poverty and we have a reputation as the province that doesn’t look after its kids,” says Michael McKnight, CEO of United Way of the Lower Mainland.[...]McKnight believes the reason B.C. has a gap in support for young families is that governments are locked into a nearsighted four-year election cycle, ignoring long-range funding strategies in favour of short-term, politically motivated spending. Cutting into child poverty and early vulnerability problems demands an official poverty-reduction strategy and commitment to raising family incomes through living-wage (salaries adjusted to real cost of living) legislation, McKnight argues.

Blowing the whistle on Liberal B.C.s systematic child abuse.


N.Beltov
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September 30, 2010 - 9:10pm
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Not only is BC the child poverty capital of Canada, but it also has the lowest minimum wage in Canada. That's not counting the two-tiered wage system for "new" or "young" workers ... which is $2/hr lower than the "minimum". Of course, that doesn't stop BC from being one of the most expensive provinces to live in ...


Catchfire
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September 30, 2010 - 9:42pm
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Vancouver's living wage hits $18 an hour

 

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Working people in Metro Vancouver need to earn more than $18 an hour in order to meet the most basic costs of raising a family, a new report says.

The study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives focused on two-parent families raising two children in Metro Vancouver to determine what they would need to earn a so-called living wage.

It found that in order to pay for the essentials of food, rent, childcare and transportation, two people working full-time need to earn $18.17 an hour apiece.

One of the report's authors, Seth Klein, told CBC News the figure is based on a very conservative budget.

"There is no money for savings or retirement. There is no money for savings for a child's post secondary education. The family rents a home, they don't own. There is no money for debt or credit card interest," Klein said.

Who's taking bets the Libs are raising minimum wage by 10$ an hour?


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