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:: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 ::
B.C. labour tensions rise over foreign workers - Michael Scott, Vancouver Sun
Jim Sinclair, president of the B.C. Federation of Labour, representing 450,000 workers in B.C., said he is angry the labour movement has never been asked for its opinion on shortages.
'The government gets behind closed doors with the employers and we are not part of the discussion that should be asking What are the real shortages? What are the various ways of dealing with this?'
Sinclair said the B.C. Fed is philosophically opposed to a two-tier system of rights for workers. 'We want [the foreign worker] program to be cancelled,' he said.
Foreign workers coming to Canada should have the opportunity to become Canadian citizens, Sinclair said, and share more completely in helping to build the country.
'Imagine if our parents and grandparents, when they first came to Canada, had only come as temporary workers,' he said.
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