Conference Board of Canada: Labour Relations Outlook and Indigenous Employment in Nunavut Mines
“Previously titled the Industrial Relations Outlook, the annual Labour Relations Outlook: Finding Stability in a Shifting Landscape informs labour, management, and policy-makers about issues that will likely influence labour relations and collective bargaining in Canada over the coming year.”
“While wages, health and safety, and employment security continue to dominate the conversation, flexibility, transparency, impact from the #MeToo movement, diversity and inclusion, and purposeful work has come to the forefront.”
“With transitions to new governments across the country and a divisive political climate south of the border, the regulatory environment in Canada has become increasingly complex over the last several years. Combined with the marginal economic growth expected for 2019, both labour leaders and employers have a challenging bargaining year ahead of them.”
Conference Board of Canada, January 2019: Labour Relations Outlook 2019: Finding Stability in a Shifting Landscape, by Monica Haberl and Natalie Arruda (instructions to the University of Toronto community on how to access this publication are available here)
Indigenous Employment in Nunavut Mines
“The study, Working Together: Indigenous Recruitment and Retention, was put together by researchers with the board's centre for the North. Researchers interviewed dozens of corporations, public sector employers and Indigenous employees and found many employees often don't apply for jobs because of a lack of education, life skills and housing support”.
“When it comes to Indigenous employment in mining, Nunavut is the front runner. Ninety-seven per cent of Nunavut residents who work in the industry in the territory are Indigenous. In the Northwest Territories, it's 52 per cent.”
“The study highlighted a set of training programs run by Agnico Eagle, which owns the Meliadine mine near Rankin Inlet and the Meadowbank mine north of Baker Laker. It offers week-long, Indigenous-run training programs which teach potential mine employees life skills, such as punctuality and how to cope with homesickness.”
CBC News, April1, 2019: “New report gives thumbs up to Indigenous employment in Nunavut mines,” by Hilary Bird
The Conference Board of Canada, March 6, 2019: Working Together: Indigenous Recruitment and Retention in Remote Canada, by Adam Fiser, Melissa Lalonde, and Cameron MacLaine (142 pages, PDF)