The B.C. Supreme Court will not hear a challenge to the community benefit agreements (CBA) framework initiated by a coalition opposed to the policy.

Andrew Mercier has been named as the new executive director of the B.C. Building Trades Council (BCBT), taking over from long time head Tom Sigurdson.

Construction workers gathered at the B.C. legislature on November 19 to call on the NDP government to scrap the Community Benefits Agreement (CBA).

A coalition of British Columbia’s largest construction associations and progressive unions began legal proceedings Feb. 27 in B.C. Supreme Court.