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Integrating Equity, Addressing Barriers:
Innovative Learning Practices by Unions, Second Edition

This newly updated and expanded edition of the June 2007 publication Integrating Equity, Addressing Barriers: Innovative Learning Practices by Unions comes at a time of economic uncertainty. Waves of layoffs and financial insecurity are increasing barriers to education and training, particularly those faced by workers of colour, Aboriginal workers, immigrants, youth and women.

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The economic downturn is also leading to growing restrictions on opportunities for education and training of employed workers, with a resulting negative impact on addressing systemic and other barriers such as time-for and cost-of training.

Nevertheless, despite this, there have been many positive developments since the report's original publication.

In the two years since then presentations about the report were made to several education and training committees, to participants at the Canadian Labour Congress Education Conference, and at six regional roundtables on work and learning.

These reports and discussions served as the basis for this new expanded second edition, which features:

  • Eleven new sketches focussing on the gaps in the original report;
  • Two new Aboriginal sketches: the Representative Workforce Strategy (included in the section on Workplace Programs), and Unionism on Turtle Island (included in the section on Labour Education);
  • A new sketch on the Access Conferences of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (included in the section on Labour Education);
  • Sketches of programs offered by labour-associated organizations and community groups: the Agriculture Workers Alliance, the Workers Action Centre, and Migrante-Ontario (included in the section on Labour Education);
  • A new section on Cultural Organizations, which features sketches on Mayworks/Mayweek Festivals and the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre;
  • Two new sketches on innovative programs in the workplace: the Joint Learning Program of the Public Service Alliance of Canada and the Canada Public Service Agency, and the Community Training Plan of the Toronto Community Housing Corporation offered with the support of the Canadian Union of Public Employees Locals 416 and 79, and;
  • Sketches on the Aboriginal Workers/Workers of Colour Conferences of the Toronto and York Region Labour Council (included in the section on Labour Education).

In addition, this new edition includes updated information on the programs featured in the original 2007 report. Most have revised the sketches on their programs, some sketches have been revised overall and some simply have an "update" section at the end of the sketch. Those sketches which have been updated are indicated on the contents pages as well as at the end of the respective sketches.

 

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