'I have a dream ticket,' says millwright Nishell Selinger. 'I can work anywhere in Canada.'
Now she’s a graduate of the Saskatchewan Youth Apprenticeship program.
But some of them just went to school and wasted a bunch of money after realizing it wasn’t for them, and then some people are still in school and they’re thousands and thousands of dollars in debt.” Mark Cooper, CEO of the Saskatchewan Construction Association, is no stranger to the booms and busts of the sector. When the economy is running hot, so is construction. When it’s slowing down, construction follows suit.
He says workers in Saskatchewan left for other industries and places, or simply quit the workforce altogether. Training complicates things. It takes four years to train a journeyperson, which may be too slow to meet a pressing demand in the more immediate future. Competing for workers returning from other provinces is also tough; a lot of the workers who left for British Columbia or Ontario are still living there, Cooper says.
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