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Local 793 welcomed Melissa Young, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Registrar of Skilled Trades Ontario, and Michael Sherrard, Skilled Trades Ontario Chair, to the OETIO campus in Oakville on Wednesday. The visit was an opportunity to showcase the world-class education and training facility and for the guests to speak with students. Young addressed the apprentices and recognized OETIO as one of the finest trade schools in Canada. Sherrard took the opportunity to try his hand on one of the state-of-the-art simulators for tower cranes. Hosting the visit was Local 793 […]

Local 793 welcomed Melissa Young, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Registrar of Skilled Trades Ontario, and Michael Sherrard, Skilled Trades Ontario Chair, to the OETIO campus in Oakville on Wednesday. The visit was an opportunity to showcase the world-class education and training facility and for the guests to speak with students.

Young addressed the apprentices and recognized OETIO as one of the finest trade schools in Canada. Sherrard took the opportunity to try his hand on one of the state-of-the-art simulators for tower cranes.

Hosting the visit was Local 793 Assistant Business Manager and Vice President Dave Turple, Executive Director of OETIO Rick Kerr, and Director of Training and Apprenticeship Jeff Hewitt.

Young has more than 20 years of experience in workforce development and the skilled trades. Her work focused on promoting the trades, harmonizing apprenticeships, developing partnerships with First Nations communities, Indigenous groups, labour and management, and influencing the national landscape for apprenticeship.

Sherrard is recognized as one of the country’s leading employment and labour lawyers. As well as Chair of Skilled Trades Ontario, he sits on the board of directors of Skills Canada (Ontario) and is a member of the Council of Ontario Construction Associations, the Toronto Board of Trade, and the Toronto Construction Association.

Visit OETIO’s website for more information about what the campus has to offer at www.oetio.com

 

Every day could be like Friday at the new condominium Local 793 members are building. Brothers Nick Olshewski and apprentice James Rodgers operate a Comedil 603 tower crane. The Friday Harbour Resort will be constructed on the shore of Simcoe County and be open all year round. This six-storey residential condo will allow residents full access to all resort amenities creating a dream living scenario near Sea Ray Avenue.  

Every day could be like Friday at the new condominium Local 793 members are building. Brothers Nick Olshewski and apprentice James Rodgers operate a Comedil 603 tower crane.

The Friday Harbour Resort will be constructed on the shore of Simcoe County and be open all year round. This six-storey residential condo will allow residents full access to all resort amenities creating a dream living scenario near Sea Ray Avenue.

 

“Technology is a vital part of training and the future of the Operating Engineers, and Local 793 is at the forefront with the use of simulators” – Vanessa Milburn, Communications and Engagement Lead. Check out what Ontario Construction Secretariat had to say about our world-class training facility, Operating Engineers Training Institute of Ontario, after having a tour! Click here to read the full article

“Technology is a vital part of training and the future of the Operating Engineers, and Local 793 is at the forefront with the use of simulators” – Vanessa Milburn, Communications and Engagement Lead.

Check out what Ontario Construction Secretariat had to say about our world-class training facility, Operating Engineers Training Institute of Ontario, after having a tour!

Click here to read the full article

Brother Joel Vien, a.k.a Jo Dozer on Facebook, operates a D3 Caterpillar dozer to push and place ballast rock for the future Trillium Line South train tracks in Ottawa. The project is one of three significant extensions to Ottawa’s light rail transit system. Rock excavation is required so the guideway can be widened and allow for the installation of a second track. Company: SNC Lavalin

Brother Joel Vien, a.k.a Jo Dozer on Facebook, operates a D3 Caterpillar dozer to push and place ballast rock for the future Trillium Line South train tracks in Ottawa.

The project is one of three significant extensions to Ottawa’s light rail transit system. Rock excavation is required so the guideway can be widened and allow for the installation of a second track.

Company: SNC Lavalin

Brother Blake Fairbairn operates a John Deere 750K XLT bulldozer prepping highway 401 lanes for a widening project in Cambridge. Part of the Highway 401 expansion project, estimated at $100 million, has Local 793 member Fairbairn prepping the original three eastbound lanes for paving. The contract looks to widen six lanes to ten, replace the Hespeler Road bridges, and rehabilitate the Townline Road underpass and the Wellington County Road 32 underpass.

Brother Blake Fairbairn operates a John Deere 750K XLT bulldozer prepping highway 401 lanes for a widening project in Cambridge.

Part of the Highway 401 expansion project, estimated at $100 million, has Local 793 member Fairbairn prepping the original three eastbound lanes for paving.

The contract looks to widen six lanes to ten, replace the Hespeler Road bridges, and rehabilitate the Townline Road underpass and the Wellington County Road 32 underpass.

Brother David Wilson operates a Grove GMK5250L All-Terrain Crane as work continues on The Life-Extension Program at the Bruce Power site. Bruce Power is carrying out its intensive Major Component Replacement (MCR) Project to secure the site’s operation until 2064. The project involves gradually replacing older systems in the company’s eight reactor units during regularly scheduled maintenance outages. Employer: E.S. Fox Limited

Brother David Wilson operates a Grove GMK5250L All-Terrain Crane as work continues on The Life-Extension Program at the Bruce Power site.

Bruce Power is carrying out its intensive Major Component Replacement (MCR) Project to secure the site’s operation until 2064. The project involves gradually replacing older systems in the company’s eight reactor units during regularly scheduled maintenance outages.

Employer: E.S. Fox Limited

Brother Dave Geno operates a PC3000 tower crane continuing work on the 33-storey residential condo project at 55 Dunlop St., Barrie. These two-tower Debut Waterfront Residences in the heart of Downtown Barrie will reshape the skyline as the first true high-rises in all of Simcoe County. As the city plans to increase the economy and cultivate a vibrant downtown core, more residential projects will likely keep popping up, intending to enhance Barrie’s urban growth centre. Company: Verdi Alliance.

Brother Dave Geno operates a PC3000 tower crane continuing work on the 33-storey residential condo project at 55 Dunlop St., Barrie.

These two-tower Debut Waterfront Residences in the heart of Downtown Barrie will reshape the skyline as the first true high-rises in all of Simcoe County.

As the city plans to increase the economy and cultivate a vibrant downtown core, more residential projects will likely keep popping up, intending to enhance Barrie’s urban growth centre.

Company: Verdi Alliance.

Brother Greg Kelly, an operator at Modern Crane Rental, runs an 80-ton mobile crane to perform a stop-log placement for regular maintenance at Sir Adam Beck generating stations in Niagara Falls. The Sir Adam Beck dam regulates the flow to the No. 1 & No. 2 powerhouses downstream near 14000 Niagara Pkwy. Our knowledge of these generating stations heavily influences Ontario’s experience with hydroelectric power. Its unique geography and natural reservoir (Lake Erie and the rest of the upstream Great Lakes) are naturally suited to sizeable hydropower.

Brother Greg Kelly, an operator at Modern Crane Rental, runs an 80-ton mobile crane to perform a stop-log placement for regular maintenance at Sir Adam Beck generating stations in Niagara Falls.

The Sir Adam Beck dam regulates the flow to the No. 1 & No. 2 powerhouses downstream near 14000 Niagara Pkwy.

Our knowledge of these generating stations heavily influences Ontario’s experience with hydroelectric power. Its unique geography and natural reservoir (Lake Erie and the rest of the upstream Great Lakes) are naturally suited to sizeable hydropower.

Local 793 members were paving a section of Balmoral Avenue adjacent to the Thunder Bay Police headquarters last Wednesday. After last week’s first frost of the season, the region will see an increase in road paving construction in anticipation of the approaching snow. Contractor: Bruno Contracting Paving Group

Local 793 members were paving a section of Balmoral Avenue adjacent to the Thunder Bay Police headquarters last Wednesday.

After last week’s first frost of the season, the region will see an increase in road paving construction in anticipation of the approaching snow.

Contractor: Bruno Contracting Paving Group

Baffinland Iron Mines Corp. has pushed back the date it was to start letting go of its Mary River mine employees to October 20 instead of this Sunday, September 25. The move came Thursday after the Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) issued a positive recommendation on the company’s application for a higher iron ore shipping limit. Read the full article here: https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/baffinland-jobs-safe-for-now/  

Baffinland Iron Mines Corp. has pushed back the date it was to start letting go of its Mary River mine employees to October 20 instead of this Sunday, September 25.

The move came Thursday after the Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) issued a positive recommendation on the company’s application for a higher iron ore shipping limit.

Read the full article here: https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/baffinland-jobs-safe-for-now/