LIUNA LOCAL 180 CONCRETE LEVEL 1 - TRAINING Beardy's & Okemasis' Cree Nation LIUNA Local 180 continues to work with Indigenous communities across the Province to provide skills training and employment opportunities. With their most recent training course facilitated to a group of Indigenous community members on the Beardy's & Okemasis' Cree Nation. Indigenous workers continue to face barriers and stigmas regarding employment. Local 180 is working to end the stigmas surrounding Indigenous workers and to ensure they have access to skills training that provides them the opportunity for employment if they want to pursue the Trades. During the week long introductory course offered by Local 180 training facilitators, the workers were taught; use of optical levels, laser levels, and the placing and finishing of concrete flat work. The practical skills will now enable these new members to begin their apprenticeship in the Construction Craft Labourer Trade. By partnering with Beardy's Okemasis, Local 180 was able to use one of their shops to facilitate the training course and bring in the mobile training classroom to the students. Many students who live away from urban areas are willing and eager to learn, but they face accessibility barriers to the training. It is great to work with this community to meet them where they are at and bring them the tools they need to learn. Local 180 continues to work with communities to 24 remove these factors and ensure that community 2 members who want training have the 0 opportunity. E U S S I | 4 2 0 2 R E B M E T P E S