Manufacturers and business associations must establish stronger communication and working relationships with aboriginal skills training organizations.
Manufacturers, business associations, First Nations communities and aboriginal organizations, together with local, provincial, and federal governments must develop an integrated strategy and more practical local initiatives to increase participation in the aboriginal workforce, provide aboriginal workers with the skills and experience they require for positions in modern manufacturing, and ensure that jobs are available for skilled aboriginal workers.
Business and professional associations must address issues with respect to expanding employment opportunities for women, aboriginal workers, and immigrants in non-traditional roles like technical or mid-level management positions.
Manufacturers must assess their work structure in order to attract more women and aboriginal workers.
Manufacturers must tap into the resources offered by senior people – former practitioners who are now self-employed or retired – for access to specialized skills and experience. Business associations can help establish contacts.
Businesses, local municipalities and economic development agencies must work together to develop an integrated strategy to improve local services and infrastructure in order to attract new businesses and new jobs to their communities. They must leverage the quality of life factors in their local communities, without losing sight of the need for business and industrial development.
Manufacturers must become more actively involved in community planning activities.
Provincial governments must develop more effective policies and programs to assist community development initiatives – particularly in areas outside major urban centres.
Manufacturers must look beyond the local labour market – to other regions of the country or to other countries – to find and recruit the people with the skills and capabilities they require.