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Climate justice
Recommendation 6: Focus and prioritize the creation of green, unionized jobs in multiple sectors including health, education, child care, transit, and the building industry.-
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Climate justice
Recommendation 8: Develop and implement policy to ensure the security and resilience of workers, their families, and communities as we transition from fossil fuel industries to a green economy.-
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Universal basic services
Higher education
Recommendation 43: Address the rise of precarious work in higher education.-
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Universal basic services
Child care
Recommendation 45: Consider the disproportionate impact of precarious labour within the child care sector on women and implement a provincial wage grid for early child educators to raise wages, and address recruitment and retention.-
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Universal basic services
Democracy and legal services
Recommendation 59: Fully restore and fund poverty law legal aid in BC to address areas such as income security, employment, housing, and debt.-
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Universal basic services
Transportation
Recommendation 68: Apply an equity lens to all provincial, regional, and municipal transportation planning to ensure all forms of transportation infrastructure are affordable, accessible, and safe for at-risk and low-income community members.-
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Economic security
Extreme poverty and homelessness
Recommendation 71: Prioritize poverty reduction strategies that target those who have a higher risk of living in poverty due to intersectional disadvantage. This includes women, single senior women, single parents, Indigenous and racialized communities, immigrants and refugees, those engaged in survival sex work and other work in grey economies, LGBTQIA2S+ individuals, those living with disabilities (taking into consideration the diverse needs of those with both short and long-term disability needs), those with mental health challenges, and those with substance-use disorders.-
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Economic security
Working poverty and employment standards
Recommendation 75: Implement interventions to reduce and eliminate precarious work in B.C.-
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Economic security
Working poverty and employment standards
Recommendation 76: End wage discrimination against farm workers and implement the general minimum wage as a wage floor for all piece-rate farm workers, as recommended by the Fair Wages Commission in 2018.-
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Economic security
Working poverty and employment standards
Recommendation 77: All levels of governments should ensure their direct and contract employees are paid a living wage.-
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