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- Residential and high-rise buildings
- Major institutional and industrial projects
- Roads
- Hydro electric construction
- And more
Learn how the BC Building Trades can help you bring your construction projects to the next level.
53nd Constitutional Convention of the BC Building Trades
Victoria, March 1-4, 2026
Latest News
UNDERGROUND: The real impact of the underground economy in B.C.
February 6, 2026 ON A DRIZZLY WINTER MORNING in 2005, Raul Aguilar balanced on the edge of a high-rise, a suction cup gripped to the pane of glass he was lowering into place. He was 19 years old and a recent immigrant from the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico. New to the...
The fight to build ferries in B.C.
December 9, 2025 WHEN PHIL VENOIT FIRST SET FOOT in a shipyard, he was barely out of high school. At just 18 years old, Venoit’s work experience had been as a manager of a McDonald’s. “I’m not going to call it a rude awakening. It was simply an awakening to an...
Op-Ed
Major projects, major opportunities, and major questions – the Executive Director’s Message
January 9, 2026 I WAS PLEASED TO JOIN the Prime Minister in Edmonton earlier this fall when he announced that the first series of projects would be referred to the Major Project Office (MPO) for consideration. The MPO was created to streamline regulatory assessment to...
Workers are the ones who create our prosperity – President’s Message
November 21, 2025 THE LATEST FISCAL UPDATE from the provincial government shows that B.C.’s finances have seen better days. With the release of the first quarterly report, we learned that British Columbia is set to run a deficit of $11.8 billion. That exceeds previous...
College of the BCBT Apprenticeship Guide
College of the BC Building Trades Apprenticeship Guide
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- Explore our programs
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Tradetalk
Read the Latest Edition of TradeTalk
Winter 2025 Vol. 28 No. 4
In this issue
- B.C.’s underground economy
- The fight to build ferries in B.C.
- College of the BCBT connects with students
- Building B.C.: The BC Place story
WE ARE INVOLVED WITH WORTHWHILE CAMPAIGNS ACROSS THE REGION TO ENSURE ALL OUR MEMBERS ARE PRIMED FOR SUCCESS IN THE COMING YEARS
MEMBER RESOURCES
The BC Building Trades represents 45,000 highly skilled construction workers in British Columbia. Our members work in the industrial, commercial, institutional and residential sectors building our communities.
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We represent 45,000 highly skilled construction workers in B.C., and we are part of a network of 500,000 unionized construction workers across Canada.
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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.
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