While the BC Liberal government refuses to increase the minimum wage and protect some of the most vulnerable workers, they did decide to give senior government beaurocrats a massive pay raise -- an increase from between 20% to 43%, and up $348,600 a year. An article in the Tyee, "Working Below the Poverty Line" argues that the BC government needs to raise the minumum wage to $10 so that the 300,000 BC residents who work for less $10 per hour could benefit from a much needed raise.

The BC government has also neglected the rights of migrant and resident farm workers in BC. Although recently for the first time a group of seasonal farm workers voted to unionize on a farm in Surrey ("Foreign Farm Workers Unionize: A First in BC"), the majority of farm workers have little formal protection.

• United Food and Workers - "B.C. FARMWORKERS JOIN UFCW CANADA!"
• CBC - "B.C. bureaucrats get huge pay raise"
• BC Federation of Labour - "Massive salary increase for government insiders, eight year freeze on minimum wage"
• The Straight Goods - "BC Liberal bureaucrats' pay raise outrageous"
• Agriculture Workers Alliance Website