CMAW WINS KEY CERTIFICATION DECISION - BC Carpenters Union
The British Columbia Labour Relations Board has certified CMAW as the bargaining agent for workers at 115 work sites formerly represented by the BC Carpenters Union. CMAW was the union of choice for 90 per cent of those voting across the province.
CMAW is the Construction, Maintenance and Allied Workers, a joint bargaining council formed by the BC Carpenters and its affiliated local unions (Construction, Industrial, Millwrights, Schoolboards, Shipbuilders) and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union (CEP).
For the past ten years, BC carpenters have been engaged in a fight to win autonomy from the American-based United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America.