Increase the minimum wage!

April 13, 2007

The lowest paid workers in BC need your help in achieving a decent, healthy standard of living.

That's why BCNU is supporting the BC Federation of Labour's campaign to boost the minimum wage in BC to $10 an hour and to eliminate the $6 training rate for new workers.

The provincial government has frozen the minimum at $8 since November 2001. Nurses know that going five years without a raise is far too long.

Condemning minimum wage workers to poverty carries real costs. It forces people to neglect the social determinants of health like good nutrition and decent housing. It has a negative impact on children. That's why we're supporting the call for an immediate increase to $10 NOW, so that our lowest paid workers get a long-overdue pay boost.

$10 NOW will benefit 115,000 workers who earn the minimum, plus another 135,000 who make less than $10 per hour.

Please join thousands of British Columbians by signing the $10 NOW petition at the BC Fed website.