BC Workers Benefit From Public Infrastructure Through Community Benefits Agreements – Business Examiner

15 July 2019

BRITISH COLUMBIA – Taxpayers are getting more than just the project on the blueprint with B.C.’s new construction framework. Under a Community Benefits Agreement (CBA), major public infrastructure projects in our province are doing double duty by building better lives for workers and their communities.

CBAs are supported by the Community Benefits Coalition of B.C., which was started by B.C. companies and members of the labour movement who believed that taxpayer-funded construction projects should also benefit the broader community.

CBAs were introduced by the B.C. government in July 2018. Attached to government-funded projects, CBAs integrate work for locals, skills training, apprenticeship opportunities, and fair wages into the construction of provincial infrastructure. A percentage of jobs go to those traditionally underrepresented in the skilled trades sector: apprentices, Indigenous workers and women.

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