Positive Business Signs
Prince George, B.C.- Small business in B.C. continues to the have the highest level of confidence in the country.
Latest information from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business shows a 1.5% increase in the Business Barometer for B.C., boosting it to 71.9. nearly three points higher than PEI which is in second place, and 25 points higher than Alberta. The national index was sitting at 60.5.
“Confidence among small business owners in B.C. continues to stay strong, despite the big challenges they face in terms of skilled labour shortages and sluggish demand in the domestic market”, states Richard Truscott, CFIB Vice President, BC and Alberta.
The views of B.C. entrepreneurs about the general state of their business also remained positive. Forty-seven per cent of business owners in April characterized it as good versus only 6 per cent who said bad, virtually the same results as March.
When it comes to hiring plans, 27 % said they planned to add full time staff in the next few months, that’s down 2 points from the March response. Only 5% indicated they planned to reduce staff.
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Had a rep from the CFIB come around our business again yesterday, looking to sign us up as a new member. As in the past, I declined. Read all their promotional material once, left after a former rep tried to do the same, and I was completely unimpressed. It looks to me like it’s gone, (or maybe it was designed in the first place to go), just about how many labor unions have gone. From something that purported to be of great service to its members, to something that puts on a bit of a show as it collects more from them in dues than the value of any real benefits it delivers back to them. And what’s written in the piece above tends to confirm my view, at least to me.
Socredible… Well done.. To be able to slam unions on an article about small business because we all know small business is all about unions..lol
Wow P Val, are you ever sensitive this morning! Obviously you have had yet another crappy week!
P.S. – I wasn’t slamming unions, I was slamming you, haha!
Well said Socredible. The same could be said about the Chamber of Commerce… It’s totally about the monopoly capitalist interests as if a cut out for the central banksters, and yet they get most all their funding from the small business entrepreneur that essentially pays for propaganda that runs counter to their own interests. The tax on revenue, rather than profits, through the HST scheme being a prime example.
Hart guy, being a little immature don’t you think. Why the personal attacks on other posters… Don’t have anything constructive to add.
Signs of a small minded person to attack personally when you can’t come up with anything constructive… Small mind syndrome.
The big difference is that socredible or any one can choose not to join the COC or CFIB. Union members have no choice.
Life is about choices, business will choose whether or not they want to join the COC or CFIB, much the same as workers will choose whether or not they want to work in a union or a non-union job. If a worker don’t want a union job then don’t apply in one of those awful unionized Company’s with decent wages and benefits. If business don’t want representation from COC or CFIB then don’t join.
Having said that if you choose not to join then you should not whine, like i said life is about choices.
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