WHY LABOUR MONOPOLIES WON’T WORK IN B.C.
If you happen to be a construction worker in British Columbia, odds are you’ve been left out of the NDP’s new labour deal for public infrastructure projects. On July 16, Premier John Horgan announced that the B.C. government reached an agreement with the newly created Allied Infrastructure and Related Construction Council, a conglomerate of some of the International Building Trade Unions (BTU), to effectively cut those who are not members of the BTU out of public construction projects. This is no small group the premier has decided to alienate — roughly 85 per cent of construction workers will be left out in the cold with this deal. Read the Full Article
EXPANDING THE TRANS MOUNTAIN PIPELINE WILL BENEFIT ALL CANADIANS
Keep Canada Working has recently launched a Timeline about the Trans Mountain Pipeline on its website. The page is an illustrated chronical of where we are in the process and just how far the Trans Mountain Pipeline has come since 1952. keepcanadaworking.ca/timeline
