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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...
THE RETURN OF COMPULSORY TRADES
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...
BC Building Trades honours memory of Premier John Horgan with $45,000 donation to BC Cancer
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....
BC Building Trades statement on the passing of John Horgan
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...
THIS ELECTION VOTE FOR: PROJECT LABOUR AGREEMENTS
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...
THIS ELECTION VOTE FOR: MORE TRADES TRAINING FUNDING
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...
THIS ELECTION VOTE FOR: BETTER HEALTH AND SAFETY
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...
BC NDP plan to increase apprenticeship funding a massive win for trades training system
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...
Flush toilet regulations a major win for construction workers
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...
