raveon, Author at BC Building Trades

BCBT pleased with $20.1 billion commitment to public infrastructure

by raveon | Feb 19, 2019

The BC Building Trades applauds Budget 2019’s commitment of $20.1 billion in public infrastructure investment ̶ the highest level ever for a three-year fiscal plan. The capital spending will be used to build hospitals, schools, post-secondary facilities, transit...

Anti-union rhetoric doesn’t hold up

by raveon | Feb 11, 2019

LMS Reinforcing Steel Group president and chief operating officer Norm Streu’s rhetoric is hard to swallow in his recent guest column in the Prince George Citizen on the provincial government’s new Community Benefits construction framework. Let’s...

by raveon | Jan 15, 2019

Paul de Jong’s pre-Christmas JOC op-ed against Community Benefits Agreements (CBAs) wants to be all truth and light. Unfortunately, his arguments are just “alternative facts.” De Jong begins by misrepresenting Building Trades unions’ market share in work...

Trade Talk

by raveon | Jan 11, 2019

TT Winter 2018 Web.pdf Members of Millwrights Local 2736 erecting a stacker-reclaimer at the Roberts Bank Coal Port.

Workers, family, dignitaries gather at Bentall memorial to honour men killed

by raveon | Jan 10, 2019

Vancouver, BC — Thirty-eight 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, we gather to remember the lives of carpenters Gunther Couvreux, Brian...

BCBT pleased with $20.1 billion commitment to public infrastructure

Anti-union rhetoric doesn’t hold up

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Workers, family, dignitaries gather at Bentall memorial to honour men killed

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