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| News Release |
| March 8, 2006 |
| For Immediate Release |
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GREATER LINK REQUIRED BETWEEN SKILLS TRAINING & LABOUR SKILLS SHORTAGES |
Let’s work to keep Manitobans in Manitoba: Rowat |
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Manitoba Progressive Conservative Advanced Education Critic Leanne Rowat feels Manitobans deserve better than ad hoc superficial solutions to our ongoing skilled labour shortages.
“Individuals, employers, business leaders, educators and training institutions have all expressed their frustration with Manitoba’s skilled labour shortages and the lack of any meaningful action by this NDP government,” said Rowat. “The Doer NDP government talks about skills strategies but there’s little action to match the rhetoric. Our youth are leaving Manitoba to seek out employment and career opportunities offered by other provincial economies.”
Rowat noted that Westman business owners indicated that hiring skilled workers remained as their number one challenge. Last week at the Brandon Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Meyers Norris Penny shared the results of a recently conducted Business Climate Survey which indicated that 65% of business leaders in the Brandon Chamber’s membership had difficulty filling positions in the last year. The Brandon Chamber/Meyers Norris Penny Business Climate Survey also indicated that 52% of respondents identified the number one strategy to address labour shortages was to increase the number of spaces for students in post secondary schools.
“The Doer government needs to work with all labour market partners to facilitate a workable strategy that matches skills training to employment prospects and clearly identifies measureable outcomes,” Rowat said. “We all agree that Manitoba’s economic future depends on a well-trained, skilled and knowledge based workforce. But what is this government’s strategy? Where is their plan? In Westman, a very viable first step might well be for the NDP government to carry on with plans to relocate ACC to the former BMHC site.”
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| For more information, please contact |
| Felicia Engstrom, Communications Officer, PC Caucus
Office: 945-5519 Cellular: 782-0543
E-mail: fengstrom@leg.gov.mb.ca |
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