Text Box: Who is Fluor? P2S? JVD Mill Services? What do they have to do with Bricklayers? Text Box: Fluor (was Massey Energy Corp.), is a massive Texas based organization swallowing up companies in refineries, pipelines, power plants, government projects where bricklayers get much of our best work opportunities. As they gain control of specialty contractors and entire projects such as Shell Canada’s Fort Saskatchewan Athabasca Oil Sands Downstream Project they will dictate what sort of working conditions you have to accept. They may also make it impossible for you to work under a BAC Bricklayers’ Collective Agreement. Your dues will go to a massive “wall to wall” union and your pension and health and welfare will go to another union’s benefit plans. You can view their website by clicking on the link here: Fluor Website For another viewpoint on Fluor Corporation check out a Corporate Watch website at Crocodyl They are also a US Defense and Disaster Services Contractor. Text Box: P2S Stands for “Plant Performance Services“ and they provide specialty construction services especially to the oil and gas industry. They are a wholly owned subsidiary of FLUOR CORPORATION and have their own subsidiary that fabricates refractory lined pipes. They too are based out of Texas USA but have an address in Leduc Alberta. The address is 212-3601-82 Ave. This is also the address of Drivers Industrial (JVD Mill Text Box: JVD Mill Services is one of many versions of JV Driver, an industrial maintenance company which has collective agreements in BC and Alberta with the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union (CEP). This company purchased CTS Corrosion of British Columbia, in an attempt to get the bricklaying work in pulp mills. Text Box: CTS Corrosion has a long history in corrosion/refractory work in BC and Alberta. Company owners sold out to JVD Mill Services a few years back and now one of the previous owners manages the company along with one to two ex BAC member bricklayers. The company most recently associated with a company called Associated Refractory and Corrosion Services (ARC). CTS through JVD attempted to do work at two Catalyst Paper Mills in BC with mixed results, mainly disastrous due to the inexperienced hands on the job. Although the technique of “starving the job” for bricklayers worked in that case, we believe the only long term way to protect ourselves against JVD is to bring them into the BAC fold by certifying them in all jurisdictions under BAC Bricklayer agreements. For more information about this contact Clarence Medernach at 1-306-359-6356 or go to the BAC 1 Saskatchewan website at bac1sk.ca