The Ontario Manufacturing Learning Consortium set to launch in Waterloo Region
Posted Jan 2, 2015 01:48:51 PM.
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The manufacturing industry is booming, and the government wants a group of companies to do more to help you get involved.
The newly formed Ontario Manufacturing Learning Consortium is up and running in the GTA, training potential employees and is set to launch in our region.
One of those, according to the Financial Post, is Guelph’s Linamar Corp, which has lined-up about $1-billion of new work.
“We’re looking for experienced people right now to hire” says Robert Cattle, with the OMLC. “That is very hard to find. We can get people taught a little quicker. We have to do training in a different way now to be competitive with other countries.”
According to the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters Ontario, manufacturing is still our largest sector with almost 800,000 direct jobs and about 1.5-million indirect jobs.
In the Nuclear Manufacturing sector alone in our province, the Post says over 10-thousand new jobs are forecasted between 2016 and 2024.
