OTTAWA — The country’s unions are ramping up their efforts to secure a larger share of work on infrastructure projects, including a push for labour standards that critics say could potentially spoon-feed billions worth of public funds to traditional organized labour groups. Representatives with Canada’s Building Trades Unions met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa Monday, in part to discuss the prospect of introducing so-called “community benefit agreements” at a federal level. Building Trades union. Building trades unions have been undertaking a broad-based lobbying effort both at the federal and provincial levels to push for CBAs. “We’re moving the yardsticks,” said Robert Blakely, a director at Canada’s Building Trades Unions who met with the prime minister Monday.

Source: National Post October 16, 2018 17:22 UTC