News Releases
BC Building Trades Statement on Report Outlining Plan to Build Ferries in BC
In 2023, Seaspan commissioned a report outlining how ferries could be built in British Columbia, the economic benefits of such a decision and the possible procurement options that would allow this to proceed. The BC Building Trades was aware of the report and...
Infrastructure Projects Act Submission
Infrastructure Projects Act - Building Trades Submission Fall 2025
TEAMSTERS AND LIUNA COLLABORATE TO LAUNCH TRADES TRAINING FACILITY IN CHILLIWACK
September 15, 2025 THE MUNICIPALITY OF CHILLIWACK had no rules in their book for how to zone a trades training facility, but that didn’t stop the leaders of Teamsters Local 213 and LiUNA Local 1611 from forging a path forward. The two unions, representing a combined...
Harnessing Canada’s Natural Resources
August 26, 2025 VIRGINIA DAVIDSON HAD SPENT five years working across the country, away from her home when the pandemic hit. She was working in Ontario as a welder, but ultimately moved to pipefitting, figuring the welding was good practice for getting into her new...
BCBT MEMBERS DELIVER BADLY NEEDED HEALTH CARE FACILITIES
June 27, 2025 IN THE FACE OF ECONOMIC UNCERTAINTY and yo-yoing tariff threats from the United States, BC Building Trades members are supporting Canadian infrastructure and ideals through work on several pivotal hospital projects across British Columbia. Aaron Preik,...
OPEN LETTER TO BC FERRIES
We were deeply disappointed to learn that BC Ferries has selected China Merchants Industry Weihai Shipyards (CMI Weihai) to build four New Major Vessels (NMVs). Canadian jobs should always come first, but in today’s economic climate, it is more important than ever...
BCBT Budget 2026 Submission to Select Standing Committee on Finance & Government Services
BCBT Budget 2026 Submission - Final
FLUSH TOILETS MORE WIDELY AVAILABLE, BUT SOME EMPLOYERS HOLDING OUT
May 12, 2025 CELINE HARMEL HAD BEEN WORKING at the Artesia construction site in Metrotown for seven or eight months when the site finally got flush toilets this past December. While she believes the site should always have had flush toilets, it came at an opportune...
PIPELINE TO GREATNESS: MEET CHASE BAKER
March 15, 2025 CHASE BAKER IS JUST ABOUT to turn 18. And while he doesn’t have his entire career mapped out just yet, he’s moving full speed ahead in the pipefitting industry thanks to a try-a-trade program he took this past summer on the Tsleil-Waututh Nation (TWN)....
CUTTING IT AS A GLAZIER APPRENTICE: MEET DENYS KOSTIUCHENKO
January 17, 2025 DENYS KOSTIUCHENKO AND HIS WIFE were living in the city of Dnipro, Ukraine when Russia invaded the country in February 2022, another escalation in an already tragic and deadly war. “We couldn’t take it. It was hard to live, hard to sleep. Constant...
