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By Past PPWC President Chris Elias and Past National Environmental Officer Stuart Blundell   The Public and Private Workers of Canada want to express our opposition to the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project. We strongly believe

Download Here Local 16 is on Strike for Fair Wages What is the Real Cost? PPWC Celebrates 50th Anniversary Locals News Wage Committee Finalizes Labour Agreement Text Provincial News BMW Filters Contain Canfor Pulp Products

  The Public and Private Workers of Canada (PPWC) believes that BC forests as a publicly-owned resource must be harvested in a manner that promotes sustainability, and healthy forests that are ecologically diverse. This would

Citizens throughout Canada are outraged by Stephen Harper and the Conservative government’s implementation of the 425-page omnibus budget legislation, bill C-38. With little time for parliamentary debate, the bill is a “Trojan horse” piece of

The term “solidarity” isn’t just a cliché. It is a fundamental necessity for students and working people throughout the world who want to create a fair and democratic society. This has been on brilliant display

Employees of Cole Harbour Place are preparing to be on the picket line tomorrow morning.  Last ditch talks between the community recreation facility and its custodial and maintenance employees broke down Tuesday when Cole Harbour

It was in 1963 that the Public and Private Workers of Canada was founded in British Columbia.  Through the leadership of Prairie-born Orville Braaten, an earlier union broke away from its American leadership to form

On March 12, 2012, Madeleine Parent, the founder of the Confederation of Canadian Unions (CCU), of which the Public and Private Workers of Canada is affiliated, passed away at the age of 93. In September

Well, a heck of a lot, actually.  Let’s run down a short list: [one_half]Weekends Paid vacations The 8-hour work day Ending child labour Work breaks, including paid lunch breaks Equal pay for equal work for

The PPWC organized another protest recently, calling on the provincial government of British Columbia to ban the export of raw logs.  Keeping raw logs in Canada would create and protect good-paying jobs in smaller communities

Dyless Munthali At the National Executive Board meeting in December, 1999, a motion was passed to sponsor a child through World Vision. Our sponsored child, Daniel Lapikaana, was from the Alor area in Indonesia. He

Download Report – Battling the Beetle: Taking Action to Restore British Columbia’s Interior Forests: Summary