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Your B.C. Government

For Workers

B.C. is well positioned to weather this period of economic uncertainty, due to our prudent fiscal management. Since December 2001, British Columbia has added over 363,000 jobs. Your B.C. Government is supporting workers in every sector, and supporting economic growth in every community.

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What your B.C. Government is doing for workers:

  • Your B.C. Government amended the Labour Relations Code to restore workers’ democratic right to a secret ballot vote for union certification.
  • The $129-million Community Development Trust provides assistance to forest workers and forest dependent communities through three programs: transition assistance, tuition assistance and job opportunities. To date, about 4,000 workers have been helped.
  • That funding includes $2 million in direct assistance to both Mackenzie and Fort St. James, two of the communities most severely affected because of their high dependence on forestry.
  • The Province has opened up access to public timber through the Forestry Revitalization Plan, reallocating 20 per cent of logging rights held by the largest licensees to smaller players, such as First Nations, community forests and woodlots.
  • 167 First Nations now have access to 43 million cubic metres of timber and $243 million in revenue sharing.
  • Your B.C. Government has invested over $1.7 billion in research and innovation, creating jobs in B.C.’s growing knowledge economy.
  • Eight new large mines have opened in B.C. since 2001, representing an estimated capital investment of $482 million.
  • Your B.C. Government permanently removed the tolls on the Coquihalla Highway on Sept. 26, 2008, saving travellers time and money. A passenger vehicle making a round trip twice a month saves $480 a year, and a commercial truck making a round trip once a week saves $4,800 a year.
  • In 2005 your B.C. Government launched aninnovative negotiating framework that offered $5.7 billion through 2009-10, which included $1 billion for signing by March 31, 2006. As a result, the Province reached 166 negotiated settlements representing 320,000 employees - or 99 per cent of the public service.
  • The Province introduced Grant's Law to reduce gas and dash incidents. The new regulation requires that all gas must be purchased before it can be pumped in B.C.
Over 363,000 new jobs created 

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