by BC Building Trades | May 12, 2022
May 12, 2022 THE BC BUILDING TRADES has won a prestigious international award for its cheeky advocacy campaign aimed at improving construction site sanitation. The organization won the 2022 Reed Award for Best International Campaign in the issue category for...
by BC Building Trades | Apr 19, 2022
April 19, 2022 DISHONEST CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTORS who underreport income or deliberately misclassify their workers as independent to evade tax and employment fees are costing the B.C. economy at least $308 million a year. “That’s $308 million that isn’t going into...
by BC Building Trades | Feb 22, 2022
February 22, 2022 THE BC BUILDING TRADES welcomes a $21 million increase to the Industry Training Authority in Budget 2022. After years of stagnating budgets, the boost will finally allow the crown corporation to exceed $100 million. “It is a relief to finally see the...
by BC Building Trades | Jan 19, 2022
January 19, 2022 VANCOUVER, B.C. — B.C.’S UNIONIZED CONSTRUCTION SECTOR has raised $622,500 for the province’s flood relief efforts. “Within days of the flooding, local building trades unions were putting the call out across their organizations for donations,” said...
by BC Building Trades | Jan 7, 2022
January 7, 2022 VANCOUVER, BC — FORTY-ONE years ago, four men went to work building one of Downtown Vancouver’s most iconic highrises and never came home. They were carpenters Gunther Couvreux, Brian Stevenson, Donald Davis and Yrjo Mitrunen, who plunged 36 floors to...
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