Click Here to go to the CLRA of BC website for the most current shutdown schedule.
Click Here to download the schedule from our blog.
Schedules are subject to change especially given the on-going COVID-19 issues.
The Last Ironworker
We support our brothers and sisters in Locals 97, 115, 2404, 38. Watch The Last Ironworker HERE.
Work at Stelco in Nanticoke ON. July with Castec
Click HERE to see job bank posting.
They are under the BACU Local 1 Hamilton Agreement which is a provincial standard agreement. The local has not called for bricklayers yet. We contacted them today and the work wont start until at least mid july. Apply through job bank but contact Ron Metcalfe at local one in a few weeks.
BC Building Trades Submission to WCB re Adding Diseases Caused By Communicable Viral Pathogens including COVID-19.
The BC Building trades has submitted policy recommendations to the Workers Compensation Board to INCLUDE Communicable Viral Pathogens on schedule 1 of the Workers Compensation Act. Schedule 1 is called “Presumption of Occupational Disease Related to Specific Process or Industry”. The goal is to have viral pathogens in particular COVID-19 on the list, so that workers who are infected from work will be compensated for the illness. Click HERE to see the letter.
Office Hours
Our Office Administrator is back in the office. Back to normal office hours. If there is no answer at the office we are either out back or on the other line. Leave a message or if you need immediate assistance Please call 778-847-2472.
Geoff Higginson
Residential Brick Repair Job in South Surrey White Rock Area.
Anyone interested with the time to do approximately five days red brick repair work? Contact Geoff at 778-847-2472.
Electronic Pay Details
One of our Contractors has been giving electronic statements to some members working for them and mailing statements to others based on whether they are “full time” or hired on a more job to job basis. The union has notified the CLRA and the Contractor that all members should be treated the same.
We will keep you informed. Please contact the hall if this has been a problem for you.
Ontario Bricklayers Agreement-Travelling Members
In Ontario the Ontario Provincial Conference governs agreements for BACU Locals and IUBAC Locals. IUBAC Local 2 BC has arranged reciprocal arrangements with the health and welfare and pension plans for all locals in Ontario. Attached here (click) is the BACU Agreement and here (click) is the IUBAC Agreement. The terms are the same essentially. For reciprocity you will have to sign reciprocity papers to bring your money home for the benefit plans.
Safe travels if you are heading that way. If you have any questions call the union hall or the president.
Feeling Stress over Covid, Finances Member Assistance Program is Available to You.
Member Assistance Program (MAP) Click on the underlined text to find out about MAP
This is a free and confidential service for members.
Site Specific Indoc at Home
May 23, 2020 Update…CIMS Project Manager at Domtar says doing the indocs at home are optional (We say NO period). If you ended up doing one at home record the day and time you started and the finish time if longer than 4 hours. If your pay detail doesn’t show the hours for the indoc notify the union hall.
The statement below was sent to the CLRA and Contractors via email this evening. (May 21, 2020) re: On Site Indoc Only
Doing site indoctrinations from home is not contemplated in our collective agreements and thereby has to be negotiated or enabled.
Our position is that no member can be required to provide a computer or laptop just to do an indoctrination.
Indoctrinations are work for the employer and therefore have to be paid. They are subject to a minimum of 4 hours pay or time worked if over 4 hours. They are subject to overtime rates as per collective agreement for work outside of the normal work week which amounts to double time.
Members cannot be compelled to do these indoctrinations at home because they have not been negotiated and have to be mutually agreed to under enabling.
In the past BAC Local 2 BC has enabled online indoctrinations for members who were capable as long as they were paid 4 hours minimum. Since the contractors have now insisted that [they] do not have to pay four hours minimum, we do not … therefore withdraw the enabling of this, to the extent any such enabling has existed.
Indoctrinations can be done on site only unless some other enabling agreement is reached with the Union.
This union and some other trades are willing to sit down and discuss negotiating some sort of enabling specific to an upcoming job or jobs and perhaps to other jobs generally.