{"id":6951,"date":"2023-03-08T10:23:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10038\/?p=6951"},"modified":"2024-08-16T15:24:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T15:24:01","slug":"statement-by-canadas-building-trades-unions-on-international-womens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portal.buildingtrades.ca\/en\/statement-by-canadas-building-trades-unions-on-international-womens-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Canada\u2019s Building Trades Unions on International Women\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6951\" class=\"elementor elementor-6951\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6e9463ef e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6e9463ef\" 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-347f42b2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"347f42b2\" 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>\u201cOn March 8, Canada\u2019s Building Trades Unions join organizations and people across the world to mark International Women\u2019s Day \u2013 a yearly reminder to address inequality in our country, and in our industry.<\/p>\n\n<p>I am proud of the many sisters that go to work in demanding jobs to build Canada each and every day. And, through various programs, we\u2019re working hard to make every job site inclusive of all. Including:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Office to Advance Women Apprentices. OAWA offer wraparound support services for women seeking or already employed in the skilled trades.<\/li>\n<li>For tradeswomen, programs like Build Together: Women of the Building Trades have created a way for tradeswomen in our industry to help uncover existing biases so we can work harder to address them.<\/li>\n<li>Build Together and our partnership with the Lean In Foundation have created networking opportunities, supports and mentorship which are an integral part of retaining women in the skilled trades.<\/li>\n<li>In the Trades that offers financial incentives to small and medium-sized union contractors to hire first-year apprentices. That incentive is doubled when the apprentice is a woman, or from an equity-deserving group.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>International Women\u2019s Day should remind us all that there\u2019s still a lot of work to do, to make every job, job site and industry open to women and we all play a role to ensure supports are in place to increase the success of women in the construction industry. The skilled trades and Canada will be better for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>-Sean Strickland, Executive Director of Canada&#8217;s Building Trades Unions<\/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>\u201cOn March 8, Canada\u2019s Building Trades Unions join organizations and people across the world to mark International Women\u2019s Day \u2013 a yearly reminder to address inequality in our country, and in our industry. 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