{"id":6931,"date":"2023-02-17T10:02:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T15:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10038\/?p=6931"},"modified":"2024-08-16T15:24:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T15:24:32","slug":"statement-by-canadas-building-trades-unions-on-sustainable-jobs-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portal.buildingtrades.ca\/en\/statement-by-canadas-building-trades-unions-on-sustainable-jobs-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Canada&#8217;s Building Trades Unions on Sustainable Jobs Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6931\" class=\"elementor elementor-6931\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5971f7ac e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"5971f7ac\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5a215d21 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5a215d21\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p>Today, the Government of Canada published its <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/natural-resources-canada\/news\/2023\/02\/government-of-canada-releases-interim-sustainable-jobs-plan-to-enable-the-creation-of-good-middle-class-jobs-across-canada.html\">Sustainable Jobs Plan<\/a><\/span><\/strong>. The plan includes 10 key action areas including establishing government bodies to support sustainable jobs; improving labour market data collection; and actions to motivate investors and industry leadership to support workers. Legislation is set to be tabled later this year, which will lay out a framework for accountability, engagement, and transparency.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cCanada\u2019s Building Trades Unions welcome the Sustainable Jobs Plan and will continue to work closely with the Government to ensure the plan provides solutions that keep workers at the forefront of the transition to net-zero. Supports needed during this transformative period include enhanced apprenticeship and training programs for displaced workers, creating more opportunities for equity-deserving groups\u00a0and the inclusion of high labour standards linked to clean technology that will grow Canada\u2019s skilled trades workforce. As we look to Budget 2023, ensuring incentives like the <strong>Investment Tax Credits <\/strong>are tied to high labour standards, apprenticeship and diversity hiring will\u00a0maximize benefits for the entire economy and create a legacy of good paying, middle-class jobs throughout this transition.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8211; Sean Strickland, Executive Director of Canada\u2019s Building Trades Unions.<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cAs we transition to net-zero, Albertans need a strong plan that protects our jobs, supports workers and our economy if we are going to be successful. This is no small task, and with many of our members working in the oil and gas sector, industry, labour, and government must work together to ensure workers have the necessary supports \u2013 from training and education, to jobs in clean technology tied to good labour standards to ensure skilled trades workers are fully supported during this period.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8211; Terry Parker, Executive Director of the Building Trades of Alberta.<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>About the Building Trades of Alberta<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Building Trades of Alberta coordinates and promotes the interests of 18 Alberta trade unions whose\u00a060,000 members\u00a0work in the residential, commercial and industrial construction, maintenance, and fabrication industries.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the Government of Canada published its Sustainable Jobs Plan. 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