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        players together, conducted important industry          develop and deliver apprenticeship training as well

        research and promoted the value of unionized ICI        as health and safety and skills upgrade training.
        construction. One of the most notable changes

        the industry has witnessed since those turbulent        Employers engaged in these Funds are able

        years in the 1970s has been the evolution of the        to convey their need for specific skills around
        labour and management partnership – both parties        equipment and procedures that will keep them

        working together to create a strong unionized           up-to-date and competitive. The annual training
        sector.                                                 spend by these Trust Funds approaches $40 million

                                                                – exclusive of capital investments in facilities and

        One example of that partnership is the jointly          equipment – and more than 95 training centres
        established Training Trust Funds that are used to       have been created by these partnerships throughout



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