tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7180592942896724433.post4540402203214806659..comments2023-12-13T05:02:37.426-05:00Comments on Pushed to the Left and Loving It: So Why Does Tim Hudak Want to Kill the Ontario College of Trades?Emily Deehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08354341672810615468noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7180592942896724433.post-39741191043167948232014-06-13T20:43:52.428-04:002014-06-13T20:43:52.428-04:00In the case of hair salon professionals, how about...In the case of hair salon professionals, how about using some of the tips you don't claim to pay the fee? I wouldn't be drawing too much attention to the costs of doing business - just makes Canada Revenue take notice .... just saying ...Trades Supporterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05240122153130468055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7180592942896724433.post-3941827083823875282014-06-08T09:49:50.522-04:002014-06-08T09:49:50.522-04:00What upset trades people is the cost born by the i...What upset trades people is the cost born by the individual journeyperson. The fees went to yearly instead of every 3 years. Even I didn't know they were tax deductible until I checked today. Going to have to make sure I put my payment receipts with my tax pile from now on. <br />http://www.collegeoftrades.ca/faq/membership-fee-faqs#3gingercathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11691556092241803831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7180592942896724433.post-92031324997396198902014-06-08T09:10:36.500-04:002014-06-08T09:10:36.500-04:00Thank you for the excellent outline of an importan...Thank you for the excellent outline of an important question – one of the more important issues in this election - that has been ignored in discussion. This issue is far too complex for the involvement of anyone with such limited workplace experience as Hudak. He is obviously following orders and he is in way over his head.<br /><br />The project to abolish the College of Trades is an anti-regulatory wage-supressing measure that highlights the special relationship that has developed between the provincial PCs, anti-union contractors, knee-jerk advocates of deregulation and the “Warehouse College” industry.<br /><br />This seems to be a plan that Hudak is proposing to assist in glutting labour markets and dispensing with the formality of workplace regulation and trade certification simultaneously. Typically, professors working at institutions formerly specializing in the “Medical Assisting” or “Chinchilla Ranching” educational fields are going to train 200,000 “pre-apprentices” in the “skilled trades” at a cost to the student or to OSAP of $7,000 for a 24-week course. The course will qualify the aspiring “entrants” to attempt to find employers who may start them on actual apprenticeships. In some cases the colleges have what appear to be casual business relationships, consisting mainly of mutually-supportive endorsements, with employers and organizations professing to be “unions”. These companies and organizations have sometimes advertised the possibility that they might assist the trainees in this endeavour once they have completed the “pre-apprenticeship” training. This is a procedure that Hudak seems to be endorsing:<br /><br />"Career colleges have been ahead of the curve for so long because you are connected to the marketplace, you know what the demand is, you know what the jobs are..."<br /><br />It’s certainly a departure from long-standing traditional practices in a formal indentured apprenticeship. No party has promised to “faithfully train” the potential “entrant” nor even made an offer of employment prior to accepting the seven grand (or the amount on whatever price tag is attached to the particular course).<br /><br />Take a look at these links:<br /><br />http://timhudakmpp.com/news/unlock-200000-new-skilled-trades-jobs/<br /><br />http://forums.redflagdeals.com/pat-institute-pre-apprenticeship-training-institute-873399/<br /><br />http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/Pre-Apprenticeship-Training-Institute/Toronto-Ontario-m3j-3e5/Pre-Apprenticeship-Training-Institute-YASC-Scam-lies-deception-Toronto-Ontario-719550<br /><br />http://www.thestar.com/news/queenspark/2014/05/29/pc_leader_tim_hudak_sticking_to_million_jobs_message_despite_criticism_of_the_plans_math.html<br /><br />Karen Renkema appears to have moved on from the Ontario Road Builders Association or perhaps she has just taken on a bigger client. Note that on this twitter page she is described as “Senior Manager of Public Affairs for the Progressive Contractors Association of Canada (PCA)”:<br /><br />https://twitter.com/KRenkema<br /><br />See also:<br /><br />http://www.pcac.ca/about-pca/our-team/<br /><br />The PCA describes itself as “the voice of progressive unionized employers in Canada’s construction industry”. What that means is that the PCA’s member contractors generally operate under special relationships with worker associations of the type that were once referred to as “yellow-dogs”. The interpersonal relationships that develop under these circumstances can be very incestuous in the organizational sense.<br /><br />See:<br /><br />http://www.pcac.ca/about-pca/<br /><br />It is often the case that personal career associations within the right-wing government relations and political advocacy network in which Ms. Renkema has been employed are facilitated through having attended or been otherwise engaged with religiously-affiliated educational institutions or through personal connections within the faith network.<br /><br />See:<br /><br />http://ca.linkedin.com/in/karenrenkema<br /><br />There is much more about this particular Hudak project that should be subjected to public discussion but the other parties seem to have ignored the issues that it raises.<br />John B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07402794337521523610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7180592942896724433.post-23664904807108528322014-06-07T20:27:45.259-04:002014-06-07T20:27:45.259-04:00I have trade certifications and work as consultant...I have trade certifications and work as consultant in the construction industry... the college of trades provides many benefits and should remain. Another reason not to vote for Hudak's conservativesAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04849343322446906057noreply@blogger.com