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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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Budget 2020 is a ‘refreshing’ investment in public infrastructure
BC Building Trades applauds the BC NDP Government for delivering a balanced 2020 budget while still investing in essential infrastructure, programs and services. Budget 2020 commits a record $22.9 billion to capital spending over three years. This investment in...
Vancity grant helps newcomers to the trades and green technology
Submitted by the Vancity Communications Department As she looks back on her training, electrician Carissa Belyk can’t help but reflect on what she’d say to a younger version of herself. She boils it down to a few simple words that could help any aspiring woman in the...
Op-Ed
Community Benefits Agreements raise standards of living for all
By Phil Venoit - IBEW Local 230, RSE President’s View It has been no secret that union busting and impeding the right of workers to form unions has been in vogue since the 1980s. Unionization rates in the private sector have fallen dramatically. The result has not...
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...
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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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