The GCAT Board of Directors
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. 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.
Those negotiations were always limited to the so-called civil trades (Carpenters, Labourers, Bricklayers, Operating Engineers, Cement Masons and Rod workers). In the same period Mechanical, Electrical and Sheetmetal contractors established separate trade associations to represent the particular interest of their members including the negotiation of agreements with the United Association, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Sheetmetal Union.
Executive Committee
JEFF ROBINSON
Chair
ANDREW DALTON
1st Vice-Chair
STEVE AQUINO
2st Vice-Chair
RENATO TACCONELLI
Exec Member
Board of Directors
Jim Lee
AECON Buildings
Jeff Robinson
J.J. McGuire General Contractors Inc.
Daniel Sterescu
Bird Construction Company
Chris Robinson
PCL Constructors Canada Inc.
Steven Aquino
Bondfield Construction Company Ltd.
Andrew Dalton
The Dalton Company Ltd.
Renato Tacconelli
Eastern Construction Company Limited
Jim Vlahos
General Contractors’ Association of Toronto
Alexis Mantello-Clement
EllisDon Corporation
Alex Di Iulis
Res 2000 Structures Inc.
Vincent Gagne
Pomerleau Inc.
Bill Waters
Harbridge & Cross Limited
Tony Patullo
Avenue Building Corporation