Premier s LNG Working Group

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1 Premier s LNG Working Group Ministry of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training Workforce Development Division

2 LNG Working Group (LNG WG) Convened Sept Mandate - to address skills training and workforce planning issues leading to employment in the LNG opportunity The LNG WG comprised of senior level representatives from organized labour, industry, First Nations, and the Province Between November 2013 and March 2014, the (WG) met nine times and developed 15 non-binding recommendations Premier accepted all recommendations 2

3 LNG WG RECOMMENDATIONS: Recommendation #1 Develop a structure with equal representation from industry (including contractor associations), organized labour, First Nations, and governments to participate and enable the skills training and workforce planning issues leading to employment in the LNG - Premier s LNG Working Group. Recommendation #2 Begin planning and training British Columbians immediately for the LNG opportunity Recommendation #3 Training should be coordinated across B.C. and Canada to maximize the effectiveness of the existing labour pool and lead to employment 3

4 Recommendation #4 Identify and remove barriers to entry into training while supporting literacy and essential skills development to support local and B.C. work-based training and employment Recommendation #5 Increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the investment in training by leveraging successful government, union, and private training Recommendation #6 In conjunction with recommendation #7, industry, governments, organized labour, and First Nations should partner to conduct campaigns and career fairs in high schools, colleges, and cultural centres on the LNG opportunity Recommendation #7 Promote awareness of job opportunities in B.C., including work-based training with a focus in rural, northern, and First Nations communities 4

5 Recommendation #8 Establish an inventory of individuals currently in apprenticeship programs and other non-apprenticeship skilled workers seeking employment. Include in the inventory journeypersons who are available to provide mentoring and on-the-job training to apprentices Recommendation #9 Aspire to a goal of having 25 percent overall of the apprenticeable trades workforce on LNG-related construction projects and whether funding for apprentices can come from industry and/or government. In addition, government should consider having a minimum number of apprentices on public infrastructure projects Recommendation #10 Review the approach used by private sector unions with respect to apprentices and by First Nations with respect to training to determine if their approach can be improved or applied more broadly 5

6 Recommendation #11 Explore and analyze projects that have used a mobile workforce. In addition, it is important to identify and resolve the barriers to worker mobility in relation to trades qualification and certification Recommendation #12 Target areas of opportunity by focusing on workers finishing construction or other projects in all areas of the province Recommendation #13 Explore best practices within the LNG sector and other competing industries with respect to the conditions necessary to attract a mobile workforce Recommendation #14 Develop a plan to support workers from other jurisdictions to stay in B.C Recommendation #15 Further refine and develop a process for the use of Temporary Foreign Workers in the context of an overall strategy that identifies the workforce needs of the LNG opportunity and immediately begins a skills training plan to develop as many British Columbian and Canadian workers as possible to meet those needs 6

7 Board Membership Labour Andy Cleven, Electrical Joint Training Committee Dan Bradford, Past Vice President, BCGEU Jim Sinclair, Past President, BC Federation of Labour (Vice- Chair) Joe Shayler, UA Canada, Local 170 Mark Olsen, Laborers International Union of North America Tom Sigurdson, BC Building Trades Government Trevor Hughes, ADM, JTST (Chair) Athana Mentzelopoulos, DM, JTST Rob Mingay, ADM, JTST Scott MacDonald, ADM, JTST Gary Herman, Industry Training Authority Rachel Holmes, Exec. Dir., MARR Susan Brown, Exec. Dir., AVED Kursti Calder, Director, MNGD Mike Henderson, Snr. Exec. Dir., Natural Resources Canada Industry David Keane, BC LNG Alliance (Vice-Chair) Geoff Morrison, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers Chris Reid, Pacific NorthWest LNG Deirdre Riley, BG Canada Marc Maeseele, LNG Canada Project Rod Maier, Chevron Canada Sarah McCullough, Spectra Energy First Nations Chief Clifford White, Gitxaala, Vice-Chair (Debbie Moore, alt) Diane Abel, Treaty 8 Tribal Association (Marlene Greyeyes, alt) Howard Grant, First Nations Summit (Musqueam) President H. Mitchell Stevens, Nisga a (Gary Patsey, alt) Taylor Cross, Haisla (Matthew Clayton - alt) Tribal Chief Terry Teegee, Carrier Sekani Tribal Council Chief Karen Ogen, Wet suwet en First Nation, (Shannon Haizimsque, alt) 7

8 LNG WG Organization Chart 8

9 LNG Working Group Sub-Committees Data Gap Analysis Integration and Implementation BC and Canada Workers First First Nations 9

10 First Nations Advisory Committee Membership First Nations Advisory Committee (FNAC) LNG Working Group Board Chief Clifford White - Chair, Gitxaala (Debbie Moore, alt) Diane Abel, Treaty 8 Tribal Association Howard Grant, First Nations Summit (Musqueam) President H. Mitchell Stevens, Nisga a Lisims Government Taylor Cross, Deputy Chief Councillor, Haisla Tribal Chief Terry Teegee, Carrier Sekani Tribal Council Chief Karen Ogen, Wet suwet en First Nation (Shannon Haizimsque, alt) FN Representatives Data Sub-Committee Rochelle Saddleman, New Relationship Trust Robert McPhee, Castlemain (Tahltan) FN Representatives Gaps Sub-Committee Judy Gerow (Kitselas) James Williams, Lil wat (Kiewit) FN Representatives Integration and Implementation Sub-Committee Rena Zatorski, Red Earth Mngmt (Lhiedli T enneh) Gary Patsey, Nisga a Lisims Government FN Representatives BC & Canada Workers First Sub-Committee Bruce Underwood, BC ATEAM Cal Albright, Kermode Friendship Centre External Representatives Karin Hunt PGNAETA Kyle Downie Skills Plan Gary McDermott - ITA Labour Jim Sinclair, Past-President, BC Federation of Labour Government Rachel Holmes, Ex. Dir. Intergovernmental and Community Relations, MARR Rob Mingay, ADM, JTST & LNG WG Executive Director Industry Sam Adkins, LNG Canada 10