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CTV News
29-05-2025
- Business
- CTV News
New Pilot Program offers Electrical Training for High School Students
Workshop at United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. The access to learning a skilled trade for high school students is expanding in the Windsor-Essex region. A press conference was held Thursday at United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America (Local 494), Old Castle, Ontario. The Greater Essex County District School Board's (GECDSB) enhanced construction program (ECP) will include the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW). 052925 - Windsor apprenticeship Press conference held at United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. (Gary Archibald/CTV News Windsor) This new pilot program offers hands-on electrical training for pupils in a co-op format. Grade 11 students who are accepted to the IBEW program can earn credits toward their high school diploma next year while gaining valuable experience in the electrical trades. The enhanced construction program includes trades such as general carpenter and drywall, acoustic and lathing applicator. Since the 2020-2021 school years, 148 students have enrolled in ECP and 53 have received offers of employment from the union following the completion of their co-op program. Graduates are currently progressing through their apprenticeship pathway. Angelica Landgraff is an ECP co-op student and attends Walkerville High School in Windsor. 'This trade, I feel like it applies to any skill that you could have,' said Landgraff. 'If you are more academically minded - there's a lot of math involved. If you're a more hands on, it's definitely hands on as well. And if you are more creative, you have to find creative ways to fix problems,' said Landgraff. 052925 - Windsor apprenticeship High school co-op students at the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. (Gary Archibald/CTV News Windsor) Gavin Kritzer, a 17-year-old student, is in the IBEW co-op program and already has employment lined up once he graduates from Erie Migration District Secondary School in Kingsville, Ontario. 'I was with Tucker Electric and then ended up working there last summer and got asked to go back,' said Kritzer. 'So, I applied for the same co-op, got in again - and I've been working with them ever since. I applied for the union March of this year and ended up getting in. So, I got my employment lined up for after high school.' Prospective co-op students for trades programs in the community should apply early – space in the pilot program is limited.
Yahoo
04-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Dispute brews between HECO, Carpenters Union
HONOLULU (KHON2) — It's a dispute between Hawaiian Electric and the Carpenters Union. HECO told KHON2 that the Hawaii Regional Council of Carpenters is going after them after the utility company refused to sign an exclusive project labor agreement with the Carpenters. We're told that currently about 1,200 HECO employees are represented by another union, the IBEW Local 1260. Hawaiian Electric to close Shift and Save program to new enrollments 'It was presented to us as a take it or leave it and that's why we look at this as a shakedown – somebody tells you you got to do something today and you got to sign this today or something bad is going to happen. And the bad thing that is happening that they're trying to have happen is to block the legislation that we're seeking, which is going to be related to overtime lowering cost for customers by helping us improve our credit standing,' said HECO's Government and Community Relations Corporate Communications Vice President Jim Kelly. 'Carpenters Union didn't even come up and talk to us. And while we represent the members of Hawaiian Electric, we also represent a lot of the signatories that do work for Hawaiian Electric. But again, we did not even get a call. We did not get a heads up that hey we want to maybe take some of your guys work,' said IBEW Local 1260 Business Manager and Financial Secretary Leroy for the Carpenters Union, Andrew Pereira, said any allegation that they're trying to leverage a project labor agreement is absolutely false. 'To be clear, Hawaiian Electric officials approached the Carpenters Union about the Securitization Bill, about this bill, to try to create a billion-dollar fund on the backs of ratepayers. And the Carpenters Union let Hawaiian Electric know that that is not a starting point. So any relationship between the Carpenters Union and Hawaiian Electric, the starting point would be absolutely no to this Securitization bill,' said Pereira. Check out more news from around Hawaii HECO said customers are not paying a dime for the settlement of the Lahaina litigation or anything related to the Lahaina fire. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
