Community Benefits Diversifying a Skilled Workforce

This panel addressed the challenges and opportunities for construction companies and trade unions, in recruiting and retaining diverse and historically underrepresented workers. How to welcome and support women, youth, newcomers, racialized and indigenous people in the trades? How to offer apprenticeships, professional, and technical jobs, in a system that continues to rely on historical practices to fill its ranks? TCBN’s recent research project surveyed those who have an interest and responsibility to diversify the growing construction economy. Our moderator briefly summarizes research findings pertinent to panellists’ discussion.

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