Comments on: Industry Perspectives Op-Ed: B.C.’s CBA is good for business and good for society /joc/news/labour/2023/09/industry-perspectives-op-ed-b-c-s-cba-is-good-for-business-and-good-for-society Canada's construction news Thu, 21 Sep 2023 17:04:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.3 By: Scott /joc/news/labour/2023/09/industry-perspectives-op-ed-b-c-s-cba-is-good-for-business-and-good-for-society#comment-58140 Thu, 21 Sep 2023 17:04:25 +0000 /?p=344353#comment-58140 On the surface, the CBA sounds nice and progressive, but it is really just a collective bargaining agreement for the building trade unions with a spatter of lipstick on it. From a contractor’s perspective, the CBA costs companies hundreds of thousands of dollars in training, insurance claims and major inefficiencies. In our experience working with BCIB, as well as many other contractors we’ve discussed this with, we have asked for trained workers, or for the BCIB to train workers in specific tasks/tickets required for the job, however, this has been met with complete resistance and the onus falls on the contractor to not only train the workers which, according to the CBA should be trained already, but to also take on the risks of hiring workers who are completely unqualified for the positions they are being hired for. The statements about training and cost savings in this article are from the perspective of the teams running the CBA, because from the people responsible for actually delivering the project and working on the ground, this has not been the case at all.

I have yet to meet a business that supports the CBA.

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