The PCA-led Ontario Construction Employers Coalition campaign to urge the McGuinty government to shut down its newly formed Ontario College of Trades continues to gain momentum with four more associations joining the fight. Read the full press release here.
The Ontario Construction Employers Coalition is calling the Ontario College of Trade’s proposed membership an $84 million “tax grab” that should be scrapped. Read the full article here.
A new College of Trades has an ambitious mandate to regulate about half a million workers as the province takes a stab at reforming an apprenticeship program that originated decades ago. Yet even before it is fully operational, it is coming under criticism from opposition MPPs, construction and business organizations, such as the Ontario Chamber …
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Ontario Road Builders Association and Ontario General Contractors Association, members of the Ontario Construction Employers Coalition, comment on the lack of transparency and fairness at the Ontario College of Trades. Read the full article…
Randy Hillier, Ontario Progressive Conservative Critic for Labour, challenged the Liberals to back down from implementing the College of Trades during the first Question Period of the Ontario Legislature today. Hillier said the coalition of Ontario construction employers, which represents some of the largest trade associations in Ontario, has said the College of Trades will …
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Ontario Opposition Highlights Ontario College of Trades Threat to Job Creation
This is the year in which the oldest baby boomers (born in 1946) start to exit the workforce. Statistics Canada predicts baby boomer retirements will continue through 2031, when retirement-aged Canadians will represent about 25% of the population. All industries will be affected, but losing skilled trades in construction has the added potential to seriously …
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Toronto – The recent announcement of the membership of key governance bodies for the Ontario College of Trades is cause for concern to a broad coalition of small, medium, and large construction employers across Ontario. The coalition is concerned that construction industry representation on the College’s Board of Governors and its Construction Divisional Board is …
Canada NewsWire TORONTO, Sept. 20, 2011 /CNW – A broad coalition of small, medium, and large construction employers across Ontario is calling on the next provincial government to take immediate action to either overhaul or abolish the Ontario College of Trades. The call comes in response to a major study of the College completed …
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Canada NewsWire HAMILTON, ON, Sept. 8, 2011 /CNW/- A major study released today by the Hamilton-based think tank Cardus shows that Ontario’s College of Trades is designed to fail. The College of Trades was set up in October, 2009 by the Ontario government as a self-governing professional college providing regulatory oversight, discipline, enforcement, and …
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