ACW leads conference stream on climate change and labour
Lively and thought-provoking discussions and interventions on integrating climate change-related action into collective agreement clauses.
Lively and thought-provoking discussions and interventions on integrating climate change-related action into collective agreement clauses.
These papers are part of a series being produced for the ACW’s Built Environment Working Group—chaired by John Calvert —which is investigating the BC Insulators union’s efforts to promote a major climate initiative in the construction industry.
There is considerable evidence of a significant gap between the needed skill sets for low carbon construction and the capacity of the training and apprenticeship systems to deliver appropriate skills – including climate literacy – to the construction workforce, both in Canada and internationally.
This paper examines the efforts of one Canadian building trades’ union, the BC Insulators, to influence the culture and climate change policies of the construction industry in British Columbia.