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Job opening: BTATS Senior Apprenticeship Advisor
The Building Trades of Alberta Training Society (BTATS) seeks a versatile and motivated person to coordinate the BTATS activities and mentor instructors who will deliver services to Alberta apprentices. The successful candidate needs to be a self starter, a strong...
BTA Executive Director joins province’s Skills for Jobs Task Force
The Building Trades of Alberta is pleased to announce its Executive Director, Terry Parker, has accepted an offer from the provincial government to sit as a member of the Skills for Jobs Task Force through the Ministry of Advanced Education. “I welcome the opportunity...
Building Trades workers need more from Canada’s next government
Building Trades workers need more from Canada’s next government Canadians are less than one month away from going to the polls to elect our nation’s leaders for the next four years. Included in those Canadians are more than 60,000 hard-working members of 18 local...
Job opening: BTACF Administrative Coordinator
The Building Trades of Alberta Charitable Foundation Administrative Coordinator is a full time position. BTA staff fall under the terms and conditions of a Collective Agreement. Terms and conditions of employment are in accordance with the Collective Agreement....
Solidarity with Teamsters 362 on legal strike in Calgary
On Sept. 23, approximately 80 members of Teamsters Local 362 walked off the job at Inland Concrete in Calgary. We encourage those who can to visit the workers and show your support at Inland Concrete locations in the Ramsay, Trotter and Spy...
Indigenous women atop a skyscraper
One picture says a thousand words about diversity in Ironworkers Local 725 By: Tyler Bedford, Building Trades of Alberta It was just after the Labour Day long weekend when Ironworkers Local 725 business manager Rob Calver spent the evening with nine ironworkers at the...
2019 federal election campaign has begun
This morning, Justin Trudeau officially launched the 2019 federal election campaign. Voters from coast to coast to coast will head to the polls on Oct. 21 to decide who will lead our country for the next four years. What happens at the federal level has a profound...
JTM golf tourney raises $121,000
Dear Friends, On behalf of the Building Trades of Alberta Charitable Foundation, I would like to extend a sincere thank you to all our sponsors, donors, volunteers, golfers, guests and others who helped make the John Tackaberry Memorial Golf Tournament on Aug....
Hundreds expected at BTA Labour Day picnic tomorrow
BTA MEDIA RELEASE: Hundreds expected at Building Trades of Alberta Labour Day picnic tomorrow EDMONTON – The Building Trades of Alberta will host its second annual Labour Day picnic at the Alberta legislature grounds tomorrow from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. Media are invited to...