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We represent 25 local craft construction unions belonging to 13 international unions. Our 35,000 highly skilled members account for approximately 55 per cent of the non-residential construction labour force in B.C.
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Workers, families, dignitaries gather to honour men killed in 1981 Bentall IV tragedy
Thirty-nine years ago, four men went to work building one of Downtown Vancouver’s most iconic highrises: the Bentall Centre Tower IV. Those men never came home. “Every year on this day, we gather to remember the lives of carpenters Gunther Couvreux, Brian Stevenson,...
Advice and Mentorship to Boost Completion Rates
Apprenticeship Advisors By Megan Terepocki Julie Sawatsky, a member of the B.C. Regional Council of Carpenters, is one of five new apprenticeship advisors hired by the Industry Training Authority (ITA) this fall. “I see the job as a real support for workers, being a...
Op-Ed
Business community doesn’t understand who creates value
By Merrill O'Donnell - BCBT Workers' Advocate Reprehensible behaviour The pullout of the B.C. business community from the Workers’ Compensation Review in August was a disheartening, if not totally unexpected, action by a group of so-called business leaders who are...
A Time to Reflect – Tradetalk Editor Retires
By Tom Sigurdson Thank you! Thank you for giving me the honour of being your executive director for the past number of years. I was first hired into the position in 1997 and left in 2003 to work in Ottawa as the director of political and legislative affairs for...
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Winter 2019 Vol. 22 No. 4
In This Issue
- How the Building Trades secured work on the TMX
- Eager young people want to get into the unionized trades
- Labour lawyer, activist to take reins of BC Building Trades
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