Activists demanding a boost to the minimum wage in this province have taken aim at a specific organization.
The demonstrators staged a rally at the Vancouver office of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) yesterday.
It has opposed the idea of bumping the minimum wage from $10.25 to $15 an hour.
The CFIB says that kind of increase would put a huge strain on small businesses, and eliminate nearly 200,000 jobs.
The activists believe raising the minimum wage will serve as an investment in the future.
“Six-three per cent of minimum wage earners are women and 81 per cent of single parents are women,” BC Federation of Labour President Irene Lanzinger said.
“So we know there are a lot of single moms living in poverty and that’s just not our society, not good for our communities. There are long-term impacts of children growing up in poverty and one of the things we can do to make that better is raise the minimum wage so that people working full-time live above the poverty line.”
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