General
The Canadian Labour Congress recognizes 30 and under is the age cap to participate
What are Young Workers?
This parli pro process is what we follow in Canadian Labour
What is Bourinot's Rules of Order?
Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) sets a National Youth Working Group.
What is 2002?
Young Workers are this many times more likely to be injured on the job than any other worker.
What is 10x?
This Union led initiative raises money to purchase protein for food banks around the province
What is the Union Protein Project?
This facilitator this week in Young Workers in Action is the immediate past co-chair of the BC Fed Young Workers Standing Committee
Who is Rick Kumar?
A process where a union and an employer negotiate a collective agreement
What is Collective Bargaining?
In this year the CLC National Youth Working Group formed
What is 1999?
Work is underway to define this type of work for 16 to 18 year olds, with regulatory changes expected to update soon.
What is hazardous work?
A not-for-profit health benefits society in British Columbia that has been involved in labor disputes and has a unionized workforce
What is Pacific Blue Cross?
Works with employers, employees, and unions on matters related to employment and labour relations in unionized workplaces.
Governs all aspects of the process of union certification (or unionization) and collective bargaining between provincially-regulated employers, unions, and employees
What is the Labour Relations Code?
This BC Health Care Union's Young Workers Standing Committee was formerly a Provincial Executive subcommittee, and was established as an equity standing committee at HEU’s 32nd biennial convention in 2021.
What is the Hospital Employees Union?
on Oct. 15, 2021, new changes to employment standards will better protect young people at work by raising the general working age in British Columbia from what age range.
What is 12 to 16 years?
This initiative increases access to free menstrual products in our community so that everyone who menstruates can go to work, get to school, access services, and stay connected to their community
What is the Period Promise?
The law in B.C. sets standards for payment, compensation and working conditions in most workplaces. The standards promote open communication, fair treatment and work-life balance for employees.
What is the BC Employment Standards Act?
The minimum number of members that must be present at any of its meetings to make the proceedings of that meeting valid
What is quorum?
United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW Canada) sets up a National Youth Internship Program for young union members to learn about the union and union activism
What is 2000?
May 2026 will be the convention for this body of labour, to be held in Winnipeg.
What is the Canadian Labour Congress Convention?
This organization and the Canadian Labour Congress have been partners since 1988, ensuring workers and working families can access social and public services that are accessible, universal and of the highest quality right in their community
What is the United Way?
This council, outlined in the Canadian Labour Congress Constitution Article 20 Section 3(k), appoints one vice-president representing young workers who is endorsed by their affiliate and elected at the appropriate caucus at convention
What is the Canadian Council?
A formal complaint filed by a union when it believes an employer has violated a collective bargaining agreement.
What is the Grievance Procedure?
In early 2008, this law was brought in with better protections for late night retail workers.
What is Grant's Law?
Every year, on April 28, workers, families, employers, and others come together at events held around the province to remember those who have lost their lives on the job, and to renew our commitment to creating safer workplaces.
What is the Day of Mourning?
A legal contract that outlines the benefits a community will receive from a development project. These are used to ensure that development projects have a positive social impact on the communities they affect.
What is a Community Benefits Agreement?