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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 ::
Lack of opportunity, not interest, hurting trades By Ellen Tsaprailis, Ottawa Business Journal
Behind every major construction project is a team of tradespeople. While the spotlight often shines on the big construction companies, it is journeymen who build Ottawa's landscape.
Despite reports there are not enough trade workers to fill construction needs in Ottawa and that young people are not interested in blue-collar labour, Ronald Maisonneuve says the opposite is true.
'I have 200 kids who want to join the local. The problem is, at the present time, we don't have the (work) to ... fully train them,' says the president of the Unionized Building and Construction Trades Council of Ottawa-Gatineau and District.
The union represents 16,000 members in the Ottawa area and provides labour to homebuilders and institutional, industrial and pipeline projects. Work is steady on the residential side, but there has been a decrease in commercial and industrial sectors, Maisonneuve says.------------------------------------------- posted 6:26 AM :: reference link ::
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