General Contractors Section
Engineering in Richmond Hill
www.gcsection.com
What you should know about General Contractors Section
As far back as the 1920's there are records of contractors within T.C.A. negotiating with Building Trade Unions as a group however agreements concluded by the group were signed by each individual contractor on a voluntary basis. Those negotiations were always limited to the so-called civil trades (Carpenters, Operating Engineers, Bricklayers, Labourers, Cement Masons and Rod workers). Following World War II Building Trade Unions were successful in a major expansion of the number of companies under collective agreement and for the first time the then Toronto Builders Exchange hired a full time Director of Labour Relations to co-ordinate the efforts of member companies in their negotiations and to act as chief spokesman.