Organizing Through Unity.
The Schulich Builders: Scholarships for Skilled Trades, the largest skilled trade scholarship program in Canada, will support students pursuing their education in the skilled trades, and in its first year of operation, more than $3 million is committed to combat labour shortages and highlight the importance of skilled trades in Canada.
Highlights from the event include discussions on promoting women in trades, the formation of Skilled Trades Ontario and issues facing the organisation, the crisis in fulfilling requirements for Skilled Trades in the coming years, just transition from ICE vehicle production to EV, expanding worker power and union influence, a nationwide Pan Canadian apprenticeship program and lobbying the federal government to implement anti scab legislation.