Industry cries for help amid labour shortage and electrification

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At the recent annual conference of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association (APMA), worker scarcity was the dominant theme and among the primary issues raised during a closed-door roundtable with Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland.

For Tim Galbraith, the skilled-labour shortage can be measured in the sum of lost contracts this year.

The CME’s annual labour survey of 563 manufacturers in 17 industries found that almost two-thirds have lost or turned down contracts and suffered production delays because of a lack of workers. “It is [a concern],” said Danies Lee, CEO of NextStar Energy Inc., the electric-vehicle battery-cell plant being built in Windsor.

“This is the first time our quality manuals [for workers] are in two languages,” English and Spanish, said Jonathon Azzopardi, president of Laval International, a tooling manufacturer near Windsor.

 

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