CISC ADVOCACY SNAPSHOT The CISC is the voice of the Canadian steel construction industry! We are proud to be the premier organization in creating solutions for the critical issues that challenge the steel construction industry every day. #WeAreSteel U.S. Section 232 Tariffs Lifted Against Canada, U.S. Anti-Dumping Action Continues U.S. Section 232 tariffs against Canada […]
Welcome to COCA’s monthly Newsletter. Unless noted otherwise, all articles written by COCA President, Ian Cunningham. View this newsletter as a web page More on the Publication of Substantial Performance Regular readers of this COCA monthly newsletter may recall that in our last edition we wrote about the theoretical possibility of the marketplace of […]
Are you ready for the WSIB’s new premium rate model? Beginning on January 1, 2020, the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) will introduce a new way of setting premium rates for almost 300,000 businesses across Ontario. The WSIB’s new model will make it easier to understand how your business and other businesses are classified. […]
Ontario’s first tall wood, low-carbon institutional building to be erected in Toronto receives federal funds By Kristen Frisa Ontario Construction News staff writer George Brown’s Waterfront Campus is about to get greener, at least in the environmental sense, as Canada expands its Green Construction through Wood (GCWood) program to build a 10-storey wood building there. […]
12,000 plumbers and pipefitters join sheet-metal workers in province-wide strike Ontario Construction News staff writer Almost a month after Ontario’s unionized sheet metal construction workers walked off the job in a dispute relating to hours of work and union hiring hall powers, about 12,000 plumbers and pipefitters laid down their tools and took up picket […]
Ontario Construction Secretariat Challenges Claims About Closed Tendering in Ontario The Ontario Construction Secretariat (OCS) is addressing misinformation head-on in its report Just Not Credible: Challenging Claims About Closed Tendering in Ontario. The document challenges the assumptions and implausible claims by Cardus, a faith-based research organization, that provisions in the Labour Relations Act are increasing the […]
June 12, 2019 The OCS is committed to providing information to our labour and management stakeholders to ensure all parties are aware of current bargaining progress and settlements as they occur. This is the 6th edition of our ICI Collective Bargaining Bulletin based on information received by the OCS as of the end of day June 11, 2019. Currently, 16 agreements have […]
Project Highlights Industrial Info Dodge Pipeline Spotlight on Safety, Training and Leadership News and Resources For Contractors News and Resources For Ironworkers IMPACT and Iron Workers In The News Upcoming Events Industrial Info IMPACT provides Industrial Information Resources’ (IIR) PEC reports to partner Local Unions and District Councils. PEC reports identify specific project related data. […]
The OCS is committed to providing information to our labour and management stakeholders to ensure all parties are aware of current bargaining progress and settlements as they occur. This is the 4th edition of our ICI Collective Bargaining Bulletin based on information received by the OCS as of end of day May 29, 2019. […]
IHSA Safety Talk: Impairment in the workplace Product spotlight: Handbook for Construction Traffic Control Persons (B016) IHSA has free safety product downloads WSIB releases Health and Safety Index results IHSA Safety Talk: Impairment in the workplace We often think of impairment as a result of using substances such as alcohol or drugs— whether they are […]