Partner Spotlight – Innovating Solutions: CPAH’s Efforts in Addressing Homelessness
Prince George Community Partners Addressing Homelessness (CPAH) is a partnership consisting of community social service agencies and government representatives, including UNBC. Explore CPAH’s ongoing efforts in empowering change and innovating solutions to address homelessness. Discover their impactful projects and insights gained from working at the forefront of homelessness advocacy.
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Why BC needs sectoral bargaining now
Budget fails to fund enough supports for newcomers to BC
Why BC needs sectoral bargaining now
Sectoral bargaining represents a different approach to labour law than the worksite-based certification model prevalent in BC. Instead of channeling all organizing and bargaining efforts at the individual workplace, sectoral bargaining provides ways to bring together workers across an industry or occupation within a designated region to negotiate minimum standards for the entire sector.
But is it a good job? Understanding precarity in BC
The pilot BC Precarity Survey aimed to address the lack of data on precarious work in British Columbia. The survey, completed by over 3,000 workers aged 25 to 65 in late 2019, provided a snapshot of the provincial labour market just before the COVID-19 pandemic. The study measured precarious employment in two different ways: standard versus non-standard employment and the Employment Precarity Index.
The results showed that 37% of the survey respondents had Precarious jobs, and the burden of precarity fell more heavily on racialized and immigrant communities, Indigenous peoples, women, and lower-income groups.
