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Industry Perspectives Op-Ed: Building the Future – Women Belong in Construction

International Women’s Day is an opportunity to celebrate progress, but it should also be a moment of honesty about the work still ahead. Advancing opportunity…

adminMarch 8, 2026

Commercial Construction

LIUNA 607 targets 2,000 members by 2030 amid ‘unprecedented’ northwestern Ontario boom

LIUNA Local 607 in Thunder Bay, Ont. is setting its sights on more than doubling its membership from the current 950 to 2,000 members by…

adminFebruary 19, 2026

Commercial Construction

Notice to All Employers of LIUNA Local 183 Employees Doing Concrete and Drain Work

NOTICE TO ALL EMPLOYERS OF EMPLOYEES REPRESENTED BY THE LABOURERS’ INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA, LOCAL 183 ENGAGED IN CONCRETE AND DRAIN WORK IN OLRB…

adminFebruary 11, 2026

Commercial Construction

Industry Perspectives Op-Ed: Why Ontario’s labour mobility leadership matters

Ontario’s Labour Minister, David Piccini, was recently designated by provincial premiers and labour ministers across the country to lead a national effort to dismantle barriers…

adminJanuary 16, 2026

Commercial Construction

Child care a major barrier to growing Ontario’s skilled trades: Report

TORONTO – With Ontario already facing a severe labour shortage, each and every barrier to entering the skilled trades must be examined closely. One particular…

adminOctober 22, 2025

Commercial Construction

Piccini welcomes SDF audit as LIUNA takes stand, pulls out of OFL

Ontario Minister of Labour David Piccini says he welcomes a review of the $2.5-billion Skills Development Fund by the province’s auditor general, calling such audits…

adminSeptember 22, 2025

Commercial Construction

Construct: Skills training program in GTA celebrates fifth anniversary

Construct provides rapid eight-week skills training in the construction trades for jobseekers in the York, Durham and Peel Regions in southern Ontario who face barriers…

adminSeptember 16, 2025