Tag: labour unions
Hospital construction deal shuts out thousands of workers: CCA
According to the Canadian Construction Association (CCA), the necessary investment of $2.8 billion to build a new Civic Campus for the Ottawa Hospital will...
Ontario to build, upgrade training facilities to help tackle the labour...
The Ontario government announced it is investing $224 million to build and upgrade training centres. The province also plans to invest $75 million more...
Ottawa Hospital and building trades unions sign historic partnership agreement
In another major milestone in its plans to build a state-of-the-art new hospital, The Ottawa Hospital announced a historic agreement with local building and...
Canada’s Building Trades Unions to increase opportunities in the skilled trades
Canada's Building Trades Unions announced the launch of In The Trades, a federally-funded program that will help apprentices get started in the skilled trades....
Engineers’ strike putting Quebec’s road maintenance industry in a state of...
Bitume Quebec is warning of “mass layoffs” by dozens of asphalt companies if an ongoing labor dispute between Quebec’s 1,800 government engineers and the...
Role of unions in trades training increasing: OCS
A new report from the Ontario Construction Secretariat highlights the growing role of unions and their contractor partners in delivering skills upgrade, apprenticeship and...