UBC Millwright Sisters Building Strong

Canada. The Millwright Regional Council’s Sisters in the Brotherhood (SIB) committee exists to “create a network of active members, eliminate barriers to women’s success, and promote an increase in the number and diversity of women in the UBC. SIB committees advocate for member involvement to strengthen the union and for the unity and retention of all members”.

Our Sisters have been actively speaking at career events in schools, and assisting with pre-apprentice groups such as Tomorrow’s Trades, LevelUp, and ApprenticeSearch.com. The UBC Millwright Regional Council was a sponsor of the Skills Ontario competition from May 1-3 at the Toronto Congress Centre. hosted a booth at the event with a virtual welding machine and a pneumatics board for the attendees to learn from.

Sister Maharaj-Seegobin and Sister Sarah Israel, UBC Millwright Local 1916 were recently on a panel at Mohawk College’s Women in Trades & Technology (WiTT) event, speaking in front of 70 females of all ages with interests in Trades and Technology. To hear more of the great work Vindra does promoting our trade, you can check out this CWB podcast where she was interviewed.

MRC Sisters also attended the Supporting Women in Trades (SWiT) conference in Winnipeg from Jun 10-12 and tis October will be the first-ever Canadian District SIB conference in Toronto, Ontario

For more information about the UBC Millwright Regional Council - Sisters in the Brotherhood, please visit https://sistersinthebrotherhood.ubcmillwrights.ca/

Photo: Sister Maharaj-Seegobin and Sister Sarah Israel, UBC Millwright Local 1916