Labour Day 2024

Dear Kwantlen Faculty Association members,

Your KFA Table Officers would like to wish you a happy Labour Day long weekend!

Let us recall that Labour Day has been a statutory holiday in Canada since 1894 and originates in the 1872 Toronto printers’ fight for a nine-hour work day. The Toronto printers’ strike was ultimately successful in achieving the nine-hour work day, and those events led to the Trade Unions Act of 1872 which made it legal to belong to a trade union. Since that time, local, provincial, and national solidarity has led to improved working conditions for unionized and non-unionized workplaces alike—improvements such as minimum wage, sick leave, maternity and parental leave, and the right to a safe work environment.

For the Kwantlen Faculty Association, Local 5 of the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators of BC, provincial solidarity has led to improved working conditions in areas such as benefits, regularization, salary increases, and professional development.

To mark Labour Day 2024, the Vancouver and District Labour Council and New Westminster and District Labour Council are co-hosting the Metro Vancouver Labour Day Celebration. Join the celebration in Edmunds Park on Monday, September 2nd between 11:00 and 3:00 for a “free, fun, family friendly celebration.” Please click here for more information.