VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – The BC Federation of Labour has held a rather stern meeting with the Royal Bank of Canada about the scandal surrounding temporary foreign workers, and it’s now out with a list of demands.

They include: stopping the use of temporary foreign workers and halting bank contractors from foreign outsourcing. The federation also wants a way of monitoring the bank to make sure it follows through and for Royal Bank to join in the cause to keep good jobs in this country.

BC Federation of Labour President Jim Sinclair warns that unions in this province have more than $4 billion invested with RBC. He says the bank’s head Gordon Nixon met right away.

“We didn’t go there to threaten the bank,” Sinclair insists. “We went there to see if they would listen to us about our concerns and we told them bluntly our first choice was to leave our money there, but in order to do that with our members we needed to hear back from him [that] his first choice was to leave the jobs here.”

Sinclair says unions will meet again with the bank in a few weeks to talk about where to go from here. “I think everybody understands the urgency of this.”

RBC is currently under investigation by the federal government over the scandal. Sinclair points out, though, the bank has been very open to the Federation’s concerns and ideas.