Contractor Issues

Western Silvicultural Contractors' Association

Contractor Issues

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

An open letter to all forest companies and silviculture contractors in Western Canada from the WSCA

Payment Letter.doc
Mar 12, 2009 - In an open letter to BC forest companies and licensees the WSCA is asking them to adopt prompt and regular payment protocols to reduce silviculture contractors' and their employees' exposure to the risk of going unpaid for completed contract silviculture work. Read More...

WSCA Appeals to Minister to Pay Unsecured Creditors for Planting
Jan 22, 2009 - The WSCA has asked Minister of Forests and Range Pat Bell to find a way to compensate three B.C. silviculture firms owed money after planting trees on Crown land for license holders who later went bankrupt. Read More...

Premier Promises to Change Woodworker’s Lien Act
Jan 22, 2009 - Premier Gordon Campbell has announced that government will move to protect forest contractors from going unpaid by license holders.But it is uncertain whether his promise to strengthen the antique Woodworker’s Lien Act will provide any certainty to silviculture contractors who may go unpaid for providing silviculture services to bankrupt clients. Read More...

Silviculture Sector Capacity Summit August 8, 2006
Jul 10, 2006 - The WSCA is proposing Western Canada’s tree planting and forestry contractors meet this summer to draw up a collective strategy to address the sector’s labour capacity problems. Read More...

WSCA Joins Logging Contractors Seeking Sales Tax Relief
Feb 26, 2006 - The WSCA and other logging contractor associations are lobbying the government for exemptions from provincial sales taxes. Read More...

Danger Tree Falling Not to Be Included as Part of Per Tree Bid Price on BCTS Contracts
Nov 6, 2005 - BCTS has agreed to discourage bid tenders that ask contractors to include the costs of danger tree falling in the price per tree. Read More...

WSCA Strategic Summit: August 2008 - Planning for difficult times and tight markets.
Jul 8, 2008 - As many of you know sowing requests for the 2009 planting season indicate one of the lowest annual planting programs in two decades. Our estimate comes in at under 200 million seedlings total including projections for a very meagre '09 summer plant. Read More...

WSCA Conference 19 - 21 January 2005 Prince George, B.C.
Jan 21, 2005 - Prince George will host the 24th annual WSCA Conference and AGM 19-21 January 2005. Corporate concentration and competition in the silvicultural sector, public forestry funding, BC Timber Sales contracting, forest fuel reduction, and the BC Safe Silviculture Project will be five major topics at the conference and trade show. Provincial Cabinet ministers and senior ministry executives have been invited. Read More...

Special Silvicultural ESA Reglations to Stand for Now
Sep 10, 2002 - The B.C. Liberal government wants to reduce regulations and increase workplace flexibility. Ironically the silvicultural regs may be out of step with government's agenda. Read More...

Employment Standards Acts Regulations are the Law
Jul 24, 2002 - Here is a brief summary of the rights of employees under the special silvicultural regulations promulgated two years ago and still ignored by some silvicultural firms. Read More...

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