Tag:Training and Development
Industry Perspectives: Promoting the Value of Certification Critical to Ontario’s Future
We continue to hear about the challenges Ontario is facing in retaining and recruiting much-need skilled trades professionals. However, it is alarming that a proposed solution by some is to lower the standards on training and safety as a way to attract more people to the trades.
Pending changes to the classification of trades may permanently dilute the trades, lower training standards and compromise public and worker safety. This responsibility was removed from OCOT and transferred to an unaccountable body with no skilled trades background.
Since 1926 IBEW Local 115 and its ECAO partners have been delivering world class electrical services in Belleville, Brockville, Cornwall, and Kingston.
With over 1,897 active members working on exciting projects all over the Ottawa area, IBEW Local 586 is playing an active role in ensuring that museums, medical facilities, transportation infrastructure, and other important public works are wired safely.
Since they were chartered on May 1, 1981, IBEW Local 402 has witnessed the transformation Northern Ontario, and has been constantly changing to adapt.
The IBEW and the ECAO work together to provide a strong and vibrant electrician apprenticeship program recognized as number one across the industry.
As of April 8, 2018 Local 804 will be 76 years old. After last year’s big 75th anniversary celebration, the focus in 2018 is on building its membership in terms of training and organizing.
On the 67th anniversary of IBEW 1687, Business Manager Bruce Palmer reflects on some of the unique challenges faced by Ontario’s northeastern local.
As computerized teaching technologies mature, IBEW continues to take the lead in putting them to work to help ensure better training.
In the construction world, results matter. If work time is lost due to injuries or shoddy work that has to…
The Ontario College of Trades was formed less than 10 years ago, but after the release of the Tony Dean report, there may be changes on the horizon.
A recent report calls for changes to how the apprenticeship process works in Ontario. It’s essential to consult trades and employers before any changes are made, so that first-hand perspective on the process – and the essential hands-on nature of apprenticeships – aren’t lost.