In this edition:
- Employees at Rankin Construction ratify new deal
- Work underway at $1.56B Port Colborne EV battery factory
- Niagara-on-the-Lake loses appeal of land tribunal ruling approving King St. condo project
- Provincial Skills Development Fund stream opens, $260M available
- Border traffic ‘pretty well back to normal’ at Peace Bridge since pandemic
- Councillor hoping St. Catharines will move ahead with safer streets
- Focus on Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
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Photo credit: Rankin Construction
Employees at Rankin Construction ratify new deal
Workers at Rankin Construction have ratified a new three-year contract. The 150 employees are represented by the Construction Workers Union, CLAC Local 6.
The union says the new deal ensures a total package increase of between 17 and 19 percent. Those increases include wage increases and improvements in benefits and tool allowance.
Rankin Construction works on many major projects in the region including roads, bridges, sewer and watermain, marine, and more.
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Work underway at $1.56B Port Colborne EV battery factory
Excavators, bulldozers and articulated haulers dot 81 hectares of land in north Port Colborne, as they prepare the future site of Asahi Kasei Corp.’s $1.56-billion, 185,800-square-metre lithium-ion separator battery plant.
Port Colborne Mayor Bill Steele said he is elated to see work underway on the largest investment, announced in May, made in the city.
Photo credit: Raimondo & Associates Architects Inc.
Niagara-on-the-Lake loses appeal of land tribunal ruling approving King St. condo project
The Ontario Land Tribunal has dismissed the town’s appeal of a tribunal decision that allowed construction of a three-storey, 17-unit apartment building on King Street.
The project proposed by developer Butler’s Gardens Development Inc. and its owner, Josh Bice, was initially sent to the land tribunal in January after town council decided not to approve it.
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Provincial Skills Development Fund stream opens, $260M available
The Ontario government’s Skills Development Fund (SDF) Training Stream opens today, with up to an additional $260 million available, the biggest funding round since the Fund launched in 2021. Building on the success of the previous four rounds, the fifth round will help tackle Ontario’s labour shortage by connecting jobseekers with employers, allowing them to begin rewarding careers in in-demand sectors such as manufacturing, construction and technology.
Beginning today, employers, employment service and training providers, labour unions, business and industry organizations, municipalities, hospitals, Indigenous Band offices, Indigenous skills and employment training agreement holders, service system managers and other community organizations eligible for funding should submit their proposals through Transfer Payment Ontario.
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Border traffic ‘pretty well back to normal’ at Peace Bridge since pandemic
Border traffic is creeping closer to pre-pandemic levels at Niagara’s international crossings.
Ron Rienas, general manager of Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority (PBA), said car traffic during the first six months of the year was 95 per cent back to 2019 figures at the Peace Bridge.
Photo credit: Robin McPherson
Councillor hoping St. Catharines will move ahead with safer streets
A St. Catharines City Councillor wants to see the city do a better job making roads safer for pedestrians and cyclists. Councillor Robin McPherson says an updated Transportation Master Plan can do just that.
McPherson says the trouble is that some councillors are not keen on the cost of possible improvements. Click here to listen to McPherson discuss the issue on Niagara in the Morning.
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