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Should a Just Recovery Include a Basic Income for B.C.?

2021, Summit Towards Equity, Economy, Equity + Justice, Future of Work

We were pleased to partner with SFU Labour Studies for the fourth webinar in their series Just Recovery? Organizing, Labour and the Future We Want.

This panel looked at the recommendations and analysis of the Final Report of the British Columbia Expert Panel on Basic Income to ask: should a just recovery for all include a basic income?

Speakers also discussed the report’s recommendations, including improved wages for low-paid workers and a more just labour market for B.C. 

Fri, 25 Jun 2021

Online Event

Part of Towards Equity

Speakers

Kaitlyn Matulewicz

Kaitlyn Matulewicz is the executive director of the Worker Solidarity Network (formerly the Retail Action Network) and the co-chair of the BC Employment Standards Coalition. Kaitlyn comes to her organizing work with seven years' experience working in restaurants. After getting tired of managers telling her to dress "classy provocative" on the job (yes, those were their actual words), Kaitlyn joined a community of workers to fight for fair and decent working conditions in B.C.

David Green

David Green is a professor in the Vancouver School of Economics at UBC. He received his BA from Queen’s University and his Ph.D. from Stanford. His areas of research interest include income inequality, immigration, the impact of technical change on the labour market, and policies affecting labour market outcomes. He is a former editor of the Canadian Journal of Economics, an international research associate with the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London, and a research associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Chuka Ejeckam

Chuka Ejeckam is the director of research and policy at the BC Federation of Labour (BCFED), and a Research Associate with the BC office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. He holds a bachelor's degree in rhetoric from the University of Winnipeg, and a combined bachelor's degree in political science and philosophy from the University of British Columbia (UBC). He is currently enrolled in the master's degree program in political science at UBC. His academic work focuses on reparative drug policy, structural racism, and both political and economic inequality. His work at the BCFED focuses on the changing world of work, including deindustrialization, precarious employment, automation and AI, and climate change.

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