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Weekly Poll for June 6, 2008
FACT: The Construction Sector Council projects that the construction industry will need 250,000 new workers by 2016.
Should the construction industry be doing more to solve the skilled labour shortage?
| No |  9% |
| Yes |  91% |
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1. June 13, 2008 — We can strive to offer the highest wage and fringe packages to a generation of workers who place little value on monetary and non-monetary concessions.
The construction sector must act in concert with other sectors to identify and resolve the "home grown talent gap," but in a limited supply market, the impending demographic shift will force all trades within the construction sector, along with all other sectors, to re-evaluate their method for employee recruitment and retention and shall seek to differentiate themselves in the marketplace of action and ideas amongst the next generation of prospective workers. Respond to this comment
Andrew Sefton, Executive Director, Ontario Painting Contractors Association Toronto, Ontario