So I don't think we should shy away from trying to recruit people from other provinces," he said. "In fact, we've got to step it up. Leslie Dornan, [Meyers Norris Penny]'s senior partner and director of human-resource consulting, agreed Manitoba employers shouldn't think they can't compete for workers just because they don't offer the same generous wage packages as some Alberta firms offer. "You're pretty much always looking for at least a small number of people," he added. "But this is an issue we've been facing for years."
Stats Can's manufacturing employment index shows a continued decline as the sector's total share of employment shrank to its lowest level on record in November, standing at 10 per cent compared with 19 per cent 30 years ago. [...] among all the provinces, Manitoba posted the lowest unemployment rate at 5.1 per cent.
The Manitoba Construction Sector Council (www.mbcsc.com) is comprised of five partners: The Construction Association of Rural Manitoba, the Manitoba Building and Construction Trades Council, the Manitoba Heavy Construction Association, the Manitoba Home Builders' Association and the Winnipeg Construction Association. The MCSC operates within the Alliance of Manitoba Sector Councils and its officers are John Schubert (Chair), Gord Lee (Vice-Chair) and Dave Martin (Secretary-Treasurer). Taras Luchak is the Executive Director. The mandate of MCSC is to assist Manitoba's construction sector by consulting industry stakeholders and offering solutions to their current and future human resource needs. The council's primary goal is to upgrade skills throughout the industry.
I still don't think it is enough of a priority in Manitoba," [Leslie Dornan] said. "Things are happening here but I think we have to step it up a notch. "Intuitively people realize that it is not likely to go away," Probe president Scott McKay said. "Employees are in the driver's seat," McKay said. "They can dictate the terms now and employers are going to have to catch up."
Something will have to give, as no economy can sustain such a huge and growing gap between labour demand and supply," said chief economist Glen Hodgson. "If faster growth in labour productivity does not make up for the shortage in workers, the province will be unable to achieve its economic growth potential.
The Chartered Accountants of Manitoba says in its annual MB Check-Up that every province from Ontario west had higher wages than Manitoba last year and the gap was widening. Real wages in Manitoba rose by just 0.5 per cent in 2006 to $19.91 per hour, including a 35 per cent hike in the province's minimum wage rate to $7.60 per hour in April.
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