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:: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 ::

Courts rule BC Carpenters Union need not use UBCJA namesake By Josh Coles, Provincial Organizer
After a hearing and consideration on the matter, the BCLRB overruled the employer and granted the application to proceed without any reference to the UBCJA. The BCLRB ruled that "the objections raised by the employer have more to do with internal union matters and not with the bargaining relationship." The decision went on to say that "Local 2736 [the Millwrights] is a valid British Columbia trade union entitled to represent its members employed at the employer."

In short, the BCPCC and/or its Local Unions need not mark themselves as part of the UBCJA.

This is another spike in the long railroad that the BC Carpenters Union have been traveling on in our battle for independence from the UBCJA.

Our union's autonomy movement picked up steam in 1996 when the UBCJA General President, Doug McCarron, demanded arbitrary internal union restructuring that amounted to nothing more than a centralization of union power from BC to Washington DC.

Since 1996, BC members have voted for autonomy from UBCJA in numerous referendums and elections. Last year members voted over 82% to join a Canadian union that supports the political and operational independence of the BCPCC. 

The February 6 BCLRB ruling flows from previous decisions at the BCLRB that have established the UBCJA simply as a club that the BCPCC and its members belong to.

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