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January 6, 2025 WHEN A CRANE WAS DANGEROUSLY showing signs of instability at a Vancouver worksite in October, Sydney Stratton said it was the ironworkers and operating engineers on site who took decisive action to contain the situation. It was the second crane...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BC Building Trades honours memory of Premier John Horgan with $45,000 donation to BC Cancer B.C. construction unions donating $1 for every member John Horgan is being remembered fondly today by BC Building Trades unions and their members....

November 12, 2024 "The BC Building Trades would like to extend our condolences to John Horgan’s family and to all of those who knew and loved him. John was a pleasure to know and to be around. He was warm, genuine and direct. John was a champion of working people, and...

October 17, 2024 IN KATE LISCHERON’S HOMETOWN of Cobble Hill, B.C., most people have to leave to find work. Whether they’re heading to Alberta’s oil fields, getting sent to big projects in Northern B.C. or commuting to Nanaimo or Victoria, she says it’s rare for folks...

October 15, 2024 GORDON MCINTOSH CRASHED INTO WELDING — almost literally. McIntosh was in his early 20s and working a “dead-end” job at an auto parts warehouse with only ten-cent annual raises on his horizon, when he rear-ended another vehicle, punching a hole in his...

October 10, 2024 THE ELECTION RACE BETWEEN B.C.’s political parties is heating up with Premier David Eby seeking re-election on October 19th. He is leading the BC NDP against BC United and leader Kevin Falcon, the Conservative Party of BC and leader John Rustad, and...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BC NDP plan to increase apprenticeship funding a massive win for trades training system The BC Building Trades enthusiastically supports today's announcement by the BC NDP that it will invest $150 million over three years in SkilledTradesBC to...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Large B.C. construction sites will soon require flush toilets and running water Universally despised porta-potties will soon be a thing of the past on large construction sites in B.C. Thousands of construction workers across the province, union...

July 29, 2024 TIMES WERE TOUGH FOR ELIZABETH MOSES and her family when they came to Canada as refugees from the Sudan. She was just six years old. Elizabeth, her parents and five siblings were living in social housing in Ontario and there wasn’t a lot to go around. “I...