“In the past, the way we’d bring in signatory employers would be the employees deciding they wanted their employer to be union,” Brandon says. “What we’re finding now is we have employers coming through our doors to actually sign up voluntarily with the union. That’s because they see the benefits of having access to a skilled workforce that’s trained. They see the benefits of having access to our young apprentices who have chosen construction as their career path.” “That’s a trend that’s changed fairly recently,” he elaborates. “There are companies out there that have the capacity to do more work, but they just don’t have the skilled workforce to do it. Instead of trying to find those people on their own, and then not having any idea who’s going to walk through their door, they see the value in working with the union to find people with the requisite skills and training to fill those required spots.” Moving forward, driven partly by that collaboration with THE CONSTRUCTION SOURCE CANADA
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