COVID-19 and Canada’s New Deal

September 29. 2020 CANADA IS FACING unprecedented health, social and economic challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic. The over half a million highly-skilled women and men that make up Canada’s Building Trades Unions are committed to continue working on building the...

Construction key to economic revival

September 16, 2020 RESTORING B.C.’s economy to pre-COVID-19 strength will depend heavily on the construction industry, and the health of construction workers. “This pandemic demonstrates the frailty of our economy when worker health and safety is compromised...

Unions lead pandemic response

September 6, 2020 A WORRIED WORLD watched with growing concern in January as reports came out of China of a new, highly contagious coronavirus. Hopes that B.C. might avoid the mysterious new virus were dashed near the end of January when provincial health officials...