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BC Building Trades applauds the BC NDP Government for delivering a balanced 2020 budget while still investing in essential infrastructure, programs and services. Budget 2020 commits a record $22.9 billion to capital spending over three years. This investment in...

Submitted by the Vancity Communications Department As she looks back on her training, electrician Carissa Belyk can’t help but reflect on what she’d say to a younger version of herself. She boils it down to a few simple words that could help any aspiring woman in the...

The BC Building trades welcomes today’s BC Supreme Court ruling refusing to hear the charter challenge of B.C.’s Community Benefits Agreement construction framework. “What happened today is the BC Supreme Court has, for the second time, told the Christian Labour...

Thirty-nine 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 on this day, we gather to remember the lives of carpenters Gunther Couvreux, Brian Stevenson,...

Apprenticeship Advisors By Megan Terepocki Julie Sawatsky, a member of the B.C. Regional Council of Carpenters, is one of five new apprenticeship advisors hired by the Industry Training Authority (ITA) this fall. “I see the job as a real support for workers, being a...

By George Thomas - Special to Tradetalk For decades, pipelines have transported commodities throughout our country; indeed, pipelines have carried Canadian energy resources not only east to west but from north to south into the United States where they have then been...

Labour lawyer Andrew Mercier will take the reins of the B.C. Building Trades Council as executive director next month. Mercier will replace Tom Sigurdson, who joined the council in 2010 after a lengthy career in political and legislative affairs. Sigurdson will remain...

The Red Seal program is the interprovincial standard of excellence in the skilled trades. It is the highest standard of training in the country, and the minimum level that the BC Building Trades believes is acceptable. What Red Seal training provides Along with...

By M. Malatesta   In the rapidly changing construction industry, building trades affiliates are continually upgrading and modernizing their training and apprenticeship programs and schools to meet new challenges. The Sheet Metal Workers Local 280 has undertaken...