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Rolling back B.C.’s Indigenous rights framework threatens economic certainty and jobs, United Steelworkers warns

February 13, 2026 | Media Releases

BURNABY, B.C. – United Steelworkers union (USW) Director for Western Canada, Scott Lunny, is raising concerns about calls to amend or repeal the British Columbia government’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA). Director Lunny released the following statement: “Resource sectors sustain working families across British Columbia. Those jobs depend on industry investment and […]

USW statement on the fatal mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.

February 11, 2026 | Statements

Scott Lunny, USW Director for Western Canada, extends condolences and solidarity to the community of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., following yesterday’s tragic events.

Stop shipping Canadian jobs overseas, says alliance of telecom workers

February 11, 2026 | Media Releases

A new alliance of telecommunications workers denounces the offshoring of Canadian jobs by telecommunications corporations.

USW welcomes long-overdue combustible dust safety reforms on anniversary of Babine Forest Products explosion

January 20, 2026 | Media Releases

On the anniversary of the Babine Forest Products mill explosion, the United Steelworkers union (USW) is remembering the two workers killed and the more than 20 others injured in the 2012 tragedy, while welcoming long-overdue reforms to British Columbia’s combustible dust safety regulations. Fourteen years ago, two workers went to work at the Babine sawmill […]

Rolling back B.C.’s Indigenous rights framework threatens economic certainty and jobs, United Steelworkers warns

USW statement on the fatal mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.

Stop shipping Canadian jobs overseas, says alliance of telecom workers

USW welcomes long-overdue combustible dust safety reforms on anniversary of Babine Forest Products explosion

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