{"id":4319,"date":"2016-10-15T07:37:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T07:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/?p=4319"},"modified":"2016-10-15T07:43:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T07:43:59","slug":"bc-federation-of-labour-media-advisory-loss-of-20000-full-time-jobs-in-bc-highlights-need-for-good-jobs-good-wages-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/?p=4319","title":{"rendered":"BC Federation of Labour Media Advisory: Loss of 20,000 full-time jobs in BC highlights need for good jobs, good wages strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Loss of 20,000 full-time jobs in BC highlights need for good jobs, good wages strategy<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>September employment numbers released today by Statistics Canada show BC has the worst record of any province on full-time employment, after the province shed 20,000 full-time jobs in September, says the BC Federation of Labour. <a href=\"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bcfed130.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1551\" src=\"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bcfed130.jpg\" alt=\"bcfed130\" width=\"130\" height=\"126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bcfed130.jpg 130w, https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/bcfed130-60x58.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNumbers bounce around month to month, but the downward trend for good-paying, full-time jobs over the last quarter and the rise of lower-paying, part-time work have been a growing concern,\u201d says Federation President Irene Lanzinger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd when you look deeper into the statistics, our economy is not creating enough good-paying, full-time positions,\u201d Lanzinger says. \u201cMeanwhile, stable, full-time employment is being replaced with more precarious and lower-paying, part-time jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And that trend, she says, underlies a growing crisis that labour groups are demanding the provincial government address.<\/p>\n<p>The BCFED recently submitted a nine-point Good Jobs, Good Wages Action Plan to Liberal and NDP politicians on the finance committee of the provincial Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>Among the plan\u2019s recommendations include a call that Victoria implement a good jobs strategy to create more full-time work in all sectors of the economy instead of precarious, part-time positions, and that the BC Government set a goal of making BC first in Canada in the creation of good-paying, full-time jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loss of 20,000 full-time jobs in BC highlights need for good jobs, good wages strategy September employment numbers released today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4322,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4319\/revisions\/4322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamaw16.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}