Many members are lifelong and enthusiastic hunters and target shooters. This is the federal government’s public consultation survey on firearms bans.
https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/cnslttns/hndgn/index-en.aspx
MacKenzie Shut-2018
If you are working there now and in camp watters send by text or email any reports of unsuitable conditions to ghigginson@bac2bc.org and info@bac2bc.org or text to 778-8472472. ASAP
BC Building Trades Statement on LNG Project
STATEMENT FROM BC BUILDING TRADES EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR TOM SIGURDSON
The BC Building Trades welcomes LNG Canada’s final investment decision on the $40 billion liquefied natural gas project in Kitimat, B.C., and congratulates the NDP provincial government on ushering in the single largest private sector investment in Canada.
This project is a boon for the sector, and will provide thousands of construction jobs when it gets under way.
We represent 40,000 highly skilled unionized construction workers and are part of a network of 400,000 members across Canada. We are committed, prepared and eager to work on this project.
The BC Building Trades was appointed to the Premier’s LNG Working Group in 2013 and has been doubling down on our efforts to ensure our province has the skilled workers the industry requires, and that British Columbians have the skills to be first in line for the jobs on LNG projects. This investment signals a commitment to local workers and apprentices.
Some of the ways our members have prepared for LNG:
- Heat and Frost Insulators: expertise in cryogenic insulation application
- Bricklayers: expanded industrial certification training; using infrastructure fund to train members in gunite, hydro mobile scaffold, forklifts and other elevated work platforms
- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers: prioritizing training in automation and control of local infrastructure in preparation for workforce demand created by LNG
- Sheet Metal Workers: working with the Sheet Metal Workers Training Centre to deliver lagging training (lagging is the protective covering over insulation)
- UA Piping Industry College: training workers for low transformation temperature welding
- Other: we have recruitment strategies targeting Indigenous populations, women, veterans and other underrepresented groups
In addition, we have more than $50 million in assets across our many union training programs. This includes land, facilities and equipment.
We enroll more than 7,000 apprentices and trainees and spend more than $18 million annually on training and apprenticeship programs.
We recognize that LNG industry will require workers who are uniquely skilled and may not be available in B.C. or the rest of Canada, justifying the hiring of temporary foreign workers. We expect that these workers can help train B.C. workers while they are here so that we can ultimately fill that skills gap.
Tom Sigurdson
Executive director,
BC Building Trades
Kitimat LNG a Go
Get on the list at the hall for LNG work. Please send an email to info@bac2bc.org or ghigginson@bac2bc.org with Kitimat LNG List in the subject line, or text to 778-847-2472.
This work is under an agreement forged over the last four to five years for LNG plant work. It is a PLA between the Building Trades and the CLRA representing the partners on the build. Although there is less than 1% of our work on this project it still amounts to a lot of hours when you consider the billions of dollars being spent on the total scope. It will be mainly concrete block.
Pine River Four Bricklayers
4 bricklayers needed for pine river with Clayburn North starting wednesday Oct 3 2018. Confined Space, Fall Protection, H2S Alive. 1-855-584-2021 union hall.
Bargaining Main Table Underway
October 30, 2018 Notice
The Bargaining Council of British Columbia Building Trades Unions (BCBCBTU) met with the Construction Labour Relations Association of British Columbia on Monday October 29, 2018 to begin bargaining main table items. These items are bargaining issues that all unions bargain together at the same time and will be incorporated (as a rule) into all of our agreements.
September 28, 2018
We are heading full on into bargaining. main Table and Trade Level Items have been submitted to CLRA and have been received from them. Union representatives will keep the members informed through local area or job site meetings.
Work Safe
Work Jurisdiction-Corrosion
Recently one of our corrosion contractors has been added to the Painters Standard Agreement. It may be that the contractor is trying to use painters to do our work applying epoxies, blankets, fibre etc to vessels. Contact the hall or the president if you have done this work in the past.
VSB Labour Management Meeting
0930 at Vancouver School Board Offices
Urgent Need for Kiln Brickies-Port Mellon
RHI needs bricklayers immediately to fill positions on the lime kiln at Howe Sound Pulp and Paper. Call Christian Engbrecht at 250-309-1813. Sept 16. 2018.
Kivcet Job, Contract questions…
Our contractor has notified the union in writing that all employees will be paid according to the Bricklayers Standard Industrial Agreement (BC). Some were asking about the possibility of higher conditions on this job. In an arbitration in 2013 it was determined that members could not ask for higher conditions than were in the agreement. Please call the union for a more detailed explanation or log in to the private union member server.