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What is Future Building?
Who Should Attend?
Who is OCS?
What is Future Building?
Future Building is an interactive three-day exhibition that provides young career seekers with the opportunity to experience hands-on activities in all areas of the construction sector. In addition, the exhibition will showcase partnerships of labour and management working together to build Ontario’s future.
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Who Should Attend?
Future Building provides valuable information to students grade 7-12, teachers, aboriginal youth, adults considering a career change, educators and the general public about opportunities for a rewarding and satisfying future in the Ontario Construction industry.
Attendees, receive one on one instruction from successful professionals currently employed in the construction sector who provide answers to questions about:
- Career Choices
- Education & Training requirements
- Job Availability
- Job Satisfaction
These volunteers appreciate the value of hands-on exposure and help open the minds of thousands of youth as they share their personal career journeys with tomorrow’s builders, employers and entrepreneurs.
Participants can enjoy a wide variety of activities, for instance you can "move the earth" with operating engineers, "hammer it home" with the carpenters and "learn to rock" with the brick and stone masons or take a ‘virtual walk’ on skyscraper scaffolding.
A career in the skilled construction trades may not be for everyone, but it might be for you!
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Who is OCS?
The Ontario Construction Secretariat (OCS) represents the 25 Employee and the 25 Employer Bargaining Agencies of the unionized industrial, commercial, and institutional (ICI) sector of Ontario’s construction industry.
The OCS Mandate
- To gather and distribute data to demonstrate the economic contribution, capabilities and performances of the organized Industrial, Commercial and Institutional (ICI) sector.
- To promote regular conferences between labour and management outside the crisis of collective bargaining.
- To promote the advancement of the unionized construction industry in Ontario.
Contacts
For more information about the Ontario Construction Secretariat, please contact James Wright.
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