[van-announce] End the Training Wage! Denounce Campbell’s big business supporters!

[Mike Krebs]

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End the Training Wage! Denounce Campbell’s big business supporters!
November 4th at the Hyatt, 6 PM
Demonstration starts at Burrard Skytrain Station

Below is the endorsement letter for this event. Please bring this to your
organization and/or local. If you need a hard copy, please call the
Anti-Poverty Committee office at (604)682-2726.

In solidarity,

Mike




Anti-Poverty Committee
(604)682-2726
42 Blood Alley
Vancouver, BC
apc at resist.ca

To Whom It May Concern:

This is a letter from the Anti-Poverty Committee asking your organization
to endorse our upcoming demonstration against the BC Restaurant and
Foodservices Association. The demonstration is November 4th, and is part
of our Campaign to End the Training Wage. It starts at 6 PM at Burrard
Skytrain Station.

The BC Restaurant and Foodservices Association (BCRFA) is a group for
businesses in the foods sector that lobbies and works ‘with Government to
influence legislation and improve conditions for its growing membership’.
The BCRFA has played an important role in lobbying for policies that will
mean more profits for business at our expense. They pushed hard for the
training wage, and advised the government on how to gut Employment
Standards and Labour Relations. They have also developed a new
‘partnership’ with the Labour Minister Graham Bruce, where the association
has been assigned its own employment standards officer to investigate
employment standards complaints brought against BCRFA member businesses.
The ‘partnership’ is designed to ensure ‘voluntary compliance’ with
employment standards, meaning basically that the government will let
business police itself. We know perfectly well that business will not
police itself, otherwise why would we have to file employment standards
claims in the first place?

The BCRFA is having their annual ‘Gala Awards Banquet’ on November 4th at
$95 a ticket. The Anti-Poverty Committee is organizing a demonstration at
this event to denounce the BCRFA’s role in drafting the BC Liberals’
attacks on poor and working people in BC. Join us in exposing the
business-driven nature of this government. Join us to demand an end to the
training wage. 

We, the Anti-Poverty Committee, are asking your organization to endorse
this event, and, if you have the means, to provide us with material
assistance. Our expenses/resource needs for this action includes:
·Promotional materials (poster/leaflet production, photocopying, etc.)
·Banner and placard materials
·Sound system rental

If your organization is interested in endorsing this event, providing us
with material assistance, and/or getting involved with organizing this
event, please contact us at (604) 682-2726, or at apc at resist.ca. Thank you
in advance for taking the time to consider this. 

In Solidarity,

Mike Krebs
Anti-Poverty Committee


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