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By Harinder Mahil
There has been a lot of discussion these days about paid sick leave for workers. There is a general agreement that workers should not go to work while they are sick and that they deserve paid sick leave. Most provinces were waiting for the federal government to introduce a program of paid sick leave in its budget. That has not happened.
The recent pandemic has made it clear that everyone’s health and well-being depends on workers being able to stay home when they are sick. In BC, workers now have a legal right to time off when they are ill three days for regular illness and unlimited time for COVID-19 but not paid time off. As a result, for many in BC, staying home when sick means losing income.
The founder of the Canadian Farmworkers Union is remembered as a ‘titan.’
David P. Ball is a journalist based in Vancouver, B.C. SHARES Charan Gill’s activism spanned the co-founding of the Canadian Farmworkers Union, establishing of a national anti-racism organization and creating and heading the thriving Progressive Intercultural Community Services Society. He died Feb. 2, age 84.
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César Chávez was already a legendary champion for farmworkers’ rights in the United States when he arrived at David Thompson Secondary School in Vancouver on April 26, 1980 to mark what would prove to be a historic day.
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