September 30, 2008

Fall 2008 Newsletter now online

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Feature story from the Fall 2008 Newsletter:

CMAW wins right to work on $2.5 billion Alcan Rio Tinto project

More than 50 years ago, about 500 B.C. carpenters joined 2,000-plus construction workers to build the Alcan aluminum smelter in Kitimat. Canadian union workers not only built the smelter, but also a reputation for B.C. union labour. When Rio Tinto Alcan recently announced a $2.5 billion smelter expansion, the American headquartered International Building Trades tried to have our union excluded from the project, but CMAW fought back and we won the right to work.

Early this summer, CMAW learned that Bechtel Canada -- the engineering, construction management company awarded the expansion contract -- had entered into a project labour agreement with the Building Trade Unions and that we were going to be excluded from the project.

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