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Business, Communications, Jobs

Taking Unionization Drives Online

By Zak Vescera,  The Tyee, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

A pair of B.C. unions have put cash behind a homegrown tech platform that hopes to make it easier and safer for workers to unionize.  

Conley Mosterd, the founder of YouIn?,  says the new online platform, based in B.C., allows workers to  anonymously ask colleagues if they are interested in organizing, safe  from the prying eyes of employers and managers.  

If 60 per cent say yes, “the platform sends  digital certification cards that can be signed and sent back to the  union,” the company said in a news release last week. 

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Community

Tackling Barriers for LGBTQ2S+ Canadians in the Workplace

By Zak Vescera,  The Tyee, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

The job seekers that Nick Ebbadi-Cook works with have two things in common. The first is that they’re  LGBTQ2S+. And the second is that almost all of them have faced  discrimination in the workplace because of it.  

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Housing

How High-Priced Housing Became a Union Issue

By Zak Vescera,  The Tyee, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Paul Finch’s union is about to become a landlord.

The BC General Employees’ Union hopes to start building a 292-unit housing development in Burnaby next year, and at least 50 per cent of the units will rent at below-market rates. The building will also include new offices for the union.

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Forests, Politics

Why the NDP Cleared a Union Local’s Pro-Eby Effort

By Zak Vescera,  The Tyee, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

A Vancouver Island union local is behind a letter that sparked an investigation into David Eby’s NDP leadership campaign and complaints  from disqualified rival Anjali Appadurai of a double standard. 

BC NDP chief electoral  officer Elizabeth Cull said she spent weeks investigating the source of  the letter, printed on United Steelworkers’ letterhead, that urged  members to join the NDP to support Eby’s leadership bid. 

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