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Manufacturing
Manufacturing Jobs Slipping Away at an Alarming Rate, CAW says
TORONTO - "The latest job outlook survey for Canada highlights the growing severity of the manufacturing job crisis," CAW President Buzz Hargrove says.
Manufacturing continued to decline in April with 14,900 more jobs lost
mainly in Ontario and British Columbia, today's Statistics Canada Labour Force
Survey shows. Since April of 2007 the number of manufacturing jobs gone is
112,000.
"The Harper government continues to watch good jobs in the manufacturing
sector slip away while it refuses to take action as workers, families and
communities suffer," Hargrove said.
In the last three months alone Canada has lost 48,000 manufacturing jobs
or 533 manufacturing jobs every single day, Hargrove said. The rate of job
loss in the manufacturing sector is accelerating - it's now more than double
what it was in 2006.
In major urban centres where most manufacturing is located there are now
seven major centres with an unemployment rate of 7 per cent or higher - St.
John's, Newfoundland; Saguenay, Trois-Rivieres and Montreal in Quebec, as well
as London, Oshawa, and Windsor in Ontario are all in this category. One year
ago there were only five - London and Oshawa are the two most recent to join
with unemployment rates at or above 7 per cent.
The bulk of new jobs created in Canada over the last month were found in
the accommodation and food services industries, which pay approximately 65%
less in wages on average than jobs in the manufacturing sector. As well, most
of the new work created last month was self-employed, which tends to be less
secure and low-paying.
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