The Liberal government says its upcoming Nov. 4 budget will double funding for a union training program and create a tax credit for personal support workers worth up to $1,100 per year.
The budget will boost union-based apprenticeship training in Red Seal trades by expanding the Union Training and Innovation Program, the Department of Finance said in an Oct. 27 news release. This includes doubling the program’s funding to $75 million over three years, and doubling the number of apprentices trained each year from 6,000 to 12,500.
“We are building major infrastructure projects and millions of new homes, and that means that we’ll need more skilled workers to get the jobs done. Unions do a phenomenal job of training people,” Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu said at an Oct. 27 press conference in Ottawa announcing four new measures, which she called “generational investments,” included in the upcoming federal budget….