BC Building Trades

On the annual Day of Mourning, we gather to remember the workers who we have lost or who have been injured due to a trauma or exposure on the job. Every worker has the right to a safe workplace, and we must continue to fight for their safety and security at every opportunity.

Last night the BC Legislature voted to protect BC workers on BC infrastructure projects. The BC Conservative bill to scrap Community Benefit Agreements and put BC jobs at risk was defeated at Second Reading. Thank you to the thousands of people who spoke up to support BC jobs.

CBAs support local jobs for trades workers. For Jean Panneton, that was a job on Kicking Horse Canyon Phase 4, a project just 20 minutes from home. Email your MLA today: tell them to stand up for local jobs and vote NO on M 233.

Workers like Katie are speaking out about the BC Conservatives’ bill that would ban Project Labour and Community Benefits Agreements on public projects. Add your voice and tell your MLA to vote against this harmful bill: win.newmode.net/bcbt-cba-email…

It’s Construction and Skilled Trades Month 🏗️ This April, we celebrate the skilled tradespeople across BC that shape our communities and recognize their hard work. Our members are building the future with every new hospital, school, bridge, and more.

BC Building Trades members were at the Legislature today, standing up for skilled trades workers and BC jobs on BC projects. Take action at protectbcjobs.ca

Alexandra Robertshaw, a Red Seal Electrician currently working on the new Cowichan Hospital Read more at: cowichanvalleycitizen.com/2026/03/24/let…

Our members are speaking out about the value of CBAs: “Labour agreement projects are special because they provide the space for women and other visible minority trades workers to gain experience... There are easily two to three times more local trades women on this job"

“The BC Conservatives want to take us back to a time when public projects like the Canada Line were built using temporary foreign labour.” said Brynn Bourke, executive director. We thank @JOC_Canada for covering our fight to protect local BC jobs and family-sustaining wages.

Hot off the press! The Spring 2026 edition of TradeTalk will be hitting mailboxes soon. Check out page 28 and add your name: protectbcjobs.ca

BC Building Trades Launches Campaign to Ensure Local British Columbians Build BC. The BC Conservative bill puts local jobs on public projects at risk. Visit bcbuildingtrades.org/bc-building-tr… for the full statement, and sign the petition at protectbcjobs.ca

BC Building Trades unions are demanding that BC Conservatives stop their attack on good-paying, local trades jobs and withdraw their legislation to ban Community Benefits and Project Labour Agreements. Sign the petition if you agree: #petition" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">protectbcjobs.ca/#petition

New BC Conservative legislation will put local BC jobs at risk and will tie government's hands on securing skilled trades. Learn more and add your name to stop the new law: protectbcjobs.ca

(6/12) Hundreds of BC Building Trades members were in Victoria for their convention earlier this week, but the Conservatives waited until the day after those workers left the city to introduce this bill.

This BC Conservative plan would cancel thousands of local, well-paying union jobs & eliminate the high-quality standards that keep workers safe. The Conservatives are more concerned with the bottom line of their donors than supporting workers. teamsters213.org/conservatives-…

See full statement here: bcbuildingtrades.org/bc-building-tr…

We strongly oppose the @Conservative_BC bill, Public Sector Construction Projects Procurement Act. This is a direct attack on the skilled union workforce that builds and maintains the provinces infrastructure.

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Thank you for joining us at the Bentall Memorial as we remembered Gunther Couvreux, Donald W. Davis, Yrjo Mitrunen and Brian Stevenson. Every year, we honour them and renew our calls for improved occupational health and safety for every worker who puts on a hard hat.

Please join us tomorrow as we mark the 45th anniversary of the Bentall Tower IV tragedy. We gather to remember Gunther Couvreux; Donald Davis; Yrjo Mitrunen; and Brian Stevenson, as well as all the construction fatalities in the construction industry. It is time to do better.