School trustees should advocate for better education funding – poll
BURNABY—An Angus Reid survey shows that 75 per cent of B.C. residents believe that public education in the province is strengthened when locally elected school trustees advocate for their school districts and challenge the provincial government. The poll, commissioned by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), also finds that 85 per cent believe that […]
Budget 2011 should support the vulnerable, raise minimum wage – CUPE BC
BURNABY—An immediate increase to the lowest minimum wage in the country, a modest increase in corporate taxation, increased investment in education from Kindergarten to university, and an end to the mean-spirited program of closing group homes for the developmentally disabled. Those are just a few of the recommendations in CUPE BC’s submission to the pre-budget […]
