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〔Jan Noster President CMAW〕 The Construction Maintenance and Allied Workers (CMAW) Bargaining Council is a construction trade union, headquartered in Vancouver. CMAW negotiates pay and work conditions on behalf of its 7,000 members in British Columbia and Alberta. Union members include carpenters, shipbuilders, scaffolders,pipefitters,millwrights lathers, cabinetmakers, display technicians, industrial workers and school board employees. The union, which has 16 local units in B.C. and two in Alberta, holds about 200 certifications, mostly in B.C. == History == The Construction Maintenance and Allied Workers Bargaining Council (CMAW) was officially formed in 2007 following an 11 year struggle with their American-based International parent union – the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (UBCJA). The B.C. Provincial Council of Carpenters Union (BCPCC) began in 1943 and represented workers of the carpentry trade. In its heyday, the union represented 17,000 members but the recession of the early 1980s, as well as an aging population, reduced this number significantly. From the very beginning, this group of Canadian workers resented being a part of an American union. They were unable to see how a U.S. union could effectively represent workers in Canada. Workers perceived UBCJA, located in Washington, D.C., as a group of union leaders who would cross the border from time-to-time, but who ultimately were unaware of worker concerns and issues in Canada. During the effort to break away from their American parent union, BCPCC entered into an affiliation agreement with a new parent union – Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP) Local 470 – one of Canada’s largest unions, which has headquarters in Ottawa and represents 150,000 workers across from work sectors including the oil-and-gas and chemical mining industries, pulp-and-paper mills, newspapers and telephone companies. The two bodies created the Construction Maintenance and Allied Workers Bargaining Council (CMAW), and this union then developed a construction arm to accommodate the specific needs of this new group of members. With a parent union in place, CMAW then went on to re-sign their members over from their previous BCPCC locals to CMAW locals while continuing their fight to leave the UBCJA. With the assistance of mediation, provided by the Labour Relations Board, terms of settlement were finally established giving CMAW the green light to finalize their separation from UBCJA. In 2008 CMAW made union history by becoming the first official all-Canadian building trade union. In 2012 CMAW ended its affiliation with the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada. (CMAW joins CCU ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Construction Maintenance and Allied Workers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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