- To organize all construction workers so they can have a unified voice in the workforce.
- To encourage training programs for a higher standard of skill, Productivity and quality on the job.
- To develop, improve and enforce safe/clean working conditions.
- To cultivate friendship among workers and help improve our communities.
- To assist each other to secure employment.
- To reduce the hours of daily labour, so we can rest on the week-end.
- To secure adequate pay for our labour and establish a weekly payday.
- To promote fringe benefits containing family healthcare coverage and pension for retirement.
- To take wages out of the competition for jobs, so they are not based on who will work for less.
- To elevate the moral, intellectual and social conditions for all construction workers.
the COLOURS
Pale blue signifying the ideas as pure, clean and lofty as the skies, while the dark red denotes that "labor is honorable," and that through honorable red blood flows through the veins of those who toil.
the JACK PLANE
A tool emblematic of the trade.
the RULE
Signifying the desire of the organization to live by the Golden Rule: "To do unto others as we wish others to do unto us."
the COMPASS
Indicating that we shall endeavor to surround our members with better condtions, socially, morally and intellectually.