| Name of Group | Title of Project | Description |
|---|---|---|
| United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 247 | Research and Innovations Project | The United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 247, (UFCW), in partnership with the Department of Education, Apprenticeship Training and Skill Development in Nova Scotia, will research, develop and test a Pan-Canadian Assessment Process. It will determine the feasibility of developing, enhancing, and combining the Transferable Skills Profiling System (British Columbia) with the Essential Skills Assessment Initiative (Nova Scotia) and any other appropriate programs to create a tool applicable anywhere in Canada. This will enable persons in transition, even those with lower literacy levels, to enhance their essential skills and focus on areas to move in and through apprenticeship into long term employment. The Transferable Skills Program is an on-line tool (including assessment skills profiles, experience, education and certification of clients) that assists individuals when moving from one trade or sector to another. The Test of Workplace Essential Skills is also an on-line tool specific to most skilled trade occupations that can be used with any entrant into an apprenticeship program. It includes a trade-specific math refresher program. |
| United Steelworkers of America | Literacy. A quilt to be made | The United Steelworkers of America (USWA) conducted an organizational basic skills needs assessment with the support of the NLS that clarified and identified the gaps in training by the Union. This project will help build a strategy for knitting literacy into every learning opportunity promoted by the Union. The main objectives of the project are: 1) to look at and connect all education and training activities, knitting literacy through all of them; 2) to raise awareness and develop literacy expertise among activists and staff to ensure literacy is taken into consideration in every education and training activity; 3) to secure resources for the continuation of the newly developed process for integrating literacy and clear language into union courses and to deliver the module to a majority of union educators; 4) to provide the tools, resources, and support needed to ensure that Steelworker activists and staff have the resources they need to further their work on literacy. |