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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...
Op-Ed
Navigating Modified Duties – the Workers’ Advocate’s Message
February 21, 2025 IF YOU GET INJURED on the job, your employer will likely offer you modified duties, presenting you with the choice of accepting or refusing. Injured workers sometimes run into trouble in this situation, particularly when they are too injured to...
Guiding Kids Toward Trades – President’s message
November 22, 2024 SOCIETY TENDS TO STEER children toward university, emphasizing careers in fields like business, technology or healthcare. But why is there so little encouragement for careers in the trades? Is it because trades are seen as “lesser” or incapable of...
College of the BCBT Apprenticeship Guide
College of the BC Building Trades Apprenticeship Guide
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Fall 2025 Vol. 28 No. 3
In this issue
- Trades training facility launch in Chiliwack
- APPRENTICESHIP SECTION
- CMAW joins BCBT
- New tower crane apprenticeship program in B.C.
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“We can’t compete with wages that are seven times less than us,” - @Seaspan CEO on how it couldn’t bid on @BCFerries ships as part of a process tilted towards the Chinese government.
Echos Davie Shipyards. On East Coast.
@WeBuildBC First Seaspan, now Davie. Two of Canada’s biggest shipyards say BC Ferries never gave them a fair shot. Tell your MLA and MP we want our ferries built at home: 👉 #bcpoli #bclab