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Training Trust Fund

LIUNA Local 1059 has world class training facilities

Training Trust Fund
The Labourers International Union of North America, Local 1059 (LIUNALocal1059) represents sixteen hundred (1600) construction workers in the London and surrounding areas. There are two hundred and forty construction companies which have agreements with this local. In anticipation of the current skills shortage for construction workers, Local 1059, along with its affiliated employers created a Training Trust Fund (TTF) in 1989. LIUNA Local 1059 Training Trust Fund (TTF) is a labour/management, industry-driven partnership and is jointly administered by Trustee representatives from labour and management. The London and District Construction Association and the London and District Concrete Forming Association represent the construction industry. It is an excellent example of labour/management cooperation which benefits both workers and the construction industry. Together the Trustees research, develop and implement education, training and apprenticeship initiatives that enable workers to become more productive and employers more competitive.

The amount of training has steadily increased during the past twelve years. Over three million dollars have been invested in buildings and equipment (at the Training Centre located at 56 Firestone Boulevard in London, and a full time training and apprenticeship coordinator(Mike Ropp)has been hired. The Construction Craft Worker Regional Training Centre (CCWRTC), as the centre is called, has three shops with a total of twenty thousand square feet of floor area, three well equipped classrooms, one twenty station computer laboratory, the latest and best equipment and tools, and outstanding trainers. With an annual budget over $900,000, each year, forty new apprentices are indentured, forty to fifty pre-apprentices are trained, one hundred first, second and third year apprentices are trained, and several hundred journeypersons get safety training and skills upgrading.
In the summer of 2002, the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (MTCU) implemented a new apprenticeship program called Construction Craft Worker (CCW). All new members of Local 1059 must take the CCW apprenticeship program. The Training Centre is a Training Delivery Agent (TDA) for the CCW apprenticeship program. Training Delivery Agent status means that MTCU recognizes, as well as funds training for the CCW trade at the Training Centre.

The Training Centre recently entered into an administrative agreement with the Bricklayers and Allied Craftworker Union Local 5 to provide them their training for pre-apprentices and apprentices in the Brick and Stone Mason trade. The Training Centre has also partnered with Fanshawe College to be the Training Delivery Agent for the Brick and Stone Mason trade in southwestern Ontario.

The Training Centre is also a Training Delivery Agent for the Cement Finisher trade.

Courses to prepare persons to write their high school equivalency test (GED) are also available at the Training Centre.

For a complete list and description of programs and courses see programs and courses tab in the training section.