Media Advisory - Skilled Trades Talk the Power of Membership - 5/6/2013

Canadian Building Trades and the UA speak out in favour of Keystone XL for the sake of our economy - 3/13/2013

Click the link to read Lapresse.

http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/quebec-canada/politique-canadienne/201303/12/01-4630309-keystone-xl-mulcair-critique-pour-son-voyage-a-washington.php

Canadian Building Trades supports Forum for Young Canadians - 2/27/2013

The Canadian Building Trades has become contributor to the Forum for Young Canadians - a foundation for the study of processes of government in Canada. 

Construction employment up - 2/8/2013

Canada's construction workforce grew as major projects and industrial maintenance provide employment.

Northern Gateway project an enormous opportunity for Canada's building trades - 1/15/2013

The Northern Gateway Project is a game changer for construction workers in the coming years.

Why training workers in Canada beats importing them from abroad - 12/17/2012

Why training workers in Canada beats importing them from abroad

 

Labour is key to being an energy superpower - 12/6/2012

For six years now Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been referring to Canada as “an emerging energy superpower.” It is a very ambitious goal that comes with significant geopolitical clout, the likes of which this country has not enjoyed in decades, if ever. And it will not be achieved without considerable public policy action, especially from the federal government.

Edmonton Journal - Alberta takes search for skilled trades people overseas - 11/9/2012

 Irish labourers arrived on Canada’s shores in the mid-1800s and 150 years later Emerald Islanders are the fourth-largest ethnic group in Canada, numbering 4.5 million, 500,000 of them in Alberta.

Original Source : Edmonton Journal

Canadians for Tax Fairness get it wrong on Mining sector and Carbon Tax - 11/5/2012

Canada’s mining and natural resource extraction sectors are game changes for construction workers across Canada . Skilled trades go to work every day in the natural resource sector  - more than 45% of the national membership of the Canadian Building Trades is actively engaged in oil and gas in some way on a daily basis

Canadian Building Trades Praises Government of Canada and Minister Flaherty - 10/19/2012

Construction Employment Down - Labour Force Survey - 9/7/2012

Construction employment moved down in August both month over month and year over year. 

A Kitimat Refinery ? - 9/5/2012

Watch Bob Blakely talk a Kitimat refinery originally aired on Alberta Primetime last month....