The Advanced Manufacturing Workforce Alliance has launched alongside Next Generation Manufacturing Canada, the Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium, and the Canadian Skills Training and Employment Coalition.
Patty Hajdu, Canada’s minister of jobs and families and minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario, announced the establishment of the new alliance, which covers skilled workers in the country’s advanced manufacturing sector.
In a news release, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) identified automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled systems as forces impacting manufacturing, which encompasses the automotive, steel, aerospace, and clean technology sectors.
“The manufacturing sector and its workforce face many challenges, including intense international competition, instability in cross-border trade arrangements, changing demographics, and rapidly developing technological changes that both create economic activity and disrupt the workforce,” said Ken Delaney, executive director of the Canadian Skills Training and Employment Coalition.
Advanced Manufacturing Workforce Alliance’s aims
According to ESDC, the new alliance aims to help the advanced manufacturing sector unite manufacturers, unions, education and training institutions, industry associations, Indigenous partners, underrepresented groups, and the skilled Canadian workers needed to:
- Promote productivity
- Implement new technologies
- Compete globally
- Be ready for new opportunities
- Adapt to the sector’s shifting needs
ESDC added that the new alliance seeks to fill workforce gaps and support practical training solutions.
“By addressing workforce shortages, supporting workers affected by economic shifts and strengthening Canada’s economic security, we are turning opportunity into growth, for workers, for communities, and for a sector where no one gets left behind,” Hajdu said.
“With the Advanced Manufacturing Workforce Alliance, we will ensure that Canadian businesses can grow, adopt new technologies, create good jobs, and succeed in an increasingly competitive global economy,” added Mélanie Joly, Canada’s industry minister and minister responsible for Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions.
Mining and other workforce alliances
According to ESDC’s news release, the Advanced Manufacturing Workforce Alliance is the second of six planned workforce alliances centred on specific sectors and aimed at tackling labour market challenges.
Before the Advanced Manufacturing Workforce Alliance, the Mining and Minerals Workforce Alliance launched on June 4.
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