Both the Employment Standards Branch and the WSCA have recently received complaints from silviculture workers claiming they have not received “bonuses” promised to them by their employers for completing a project or a season of forestry work. In almost all cases these promised “loyalty” or “end of season” bonuses are illegal and actually are wages … Read more
The combination of a gutted Forest Service, vast areas of not sufficiently restocked forestlands, a quirky loophole in the Kyoto Protocol and a provincial government ideologically driven to sell off public assets has created the perfect opportunity for forest industrialists to burn down the last barriers to privatization of BC’s Crown forests. Read more
A decade of cuts has left a priceless resource facing a homemade crisis. There is an old saying that if the forest service is not planting trees, then it is not doing its job. When reforestation was the law in British Columbia, the forest ministry reported in its 2000-01 annual report that the area of … Read more