by Doug Cook | May 15, 2019
We have all heard the expression, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” And so let us take a moment to reflect on what happened in May of 1919 in Winnipeg. The First World War had just ended and soldiers returning from Europe had...
by Doug Cook | May 8, 2019
Keep doing what you’re doing. That was the message from Sean McGarvey, president of North America’s Building Trades Unions, to delegates and guests at the BC Building Trades convention in Victoria recently. “The training and apprenticeship system in British Columbia...
by Doug Cook | May 7, 2019
LiUNA Local 1611 member Trish Cavers on the Site C Dam worksite.
by Doug Cook | Apr 29, 2019
Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs) are growing in popularity in British Columbia, and for good reason. The provincial government introduced CBAs on public infrastructure projects in July 2018, while Vancouver became the first major city in Canada to implement a...
by Doug Cook | Apr 24, 2019
About 200 people attended the first Construction Trades Job Fair on March 30. The event was put on by the Trades Opportunity Group, a committee of the BC Building Trades.That was music to the ears of many of the tradespeople who attended the first Construction Trades...
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