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Subject: Construction �boot camp� led to coveted trades jobs. But according to city documents, some say it came at the cost of racial taunts and humiliation
By Laurie Monsebraaten
Social Justice Reporter
The Star
Sat., Oct. 20, 2018
Annemarie Shrouder looked out over the sea of white, middle-aged male faces gathered at the convention of Ontario�s building and construction trade unions, and stated the obvious.
�I don�t see a lot of visible minorities or women,� the Toronto-based diversity and inclusion expert told almost 300 delegates and guests at the meeting in Niagara Falls this month.
With more than 100,000 skilled trades people in Ontario set to retire over the next decade, �getting people into the trades is only part of the equation,� she noted. �The more important part is making sure the people you have, and those who will arrive, feel safe, are seen and stay.�
Shrouder�s keynote address comes at a time when a union-sponsored pre-apprenticeship program has come under scrutiny from both the City of Toronto and the province for allegations of abusive behaviour and racist language.
Hammer Heads, which helps disadvantaged young people gain access to jobs in the construction trades, lost its contract with the city in July 2017 following complaints from participants about program director James St. John, according to internal city documents obtained through freedom of information legislation.
That same month, the provincial Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities put its funding renewal of the program �on hold� when, according to ministry documents obtained through a separate freedom of information request, it �became aware of allegations � Hammer Heads staff had subjected participants to comments of a harassing nature, racial slurs and intimidation.�
After a ministry review, the province signed a new contract with the program this May, subject to Hammer Heads� board of directors obtaining an independent review of its operations to be submitted to the government this week, according to an internal ministry memo.
St. John declined an opportunity to speak to the Star, but through a spokesman denied he is abusive or uses racist language and said the city has refused to produce �concrete evidence of any allegations� or a �report of an investigation.�
James St. John has defended his Hammer Heads pre-apprenticeship program, saying no other city-funded program achieves its success rate for helping young people get jobs in the construction trades. He is shown at the Building and Construction Trades Council of Ontario convention in Niagara Falls earlier this month. (Andrew Lahodynskyj for Toronto Star)
St. John is the head of the Central Ontario Building Trades Council, which represents more than 50,000 skilled trades people in the GTA from 21 unions, including electricians, plumbers and iron workers.
His supporters praise him as a mentor who champions the underdog and uses harsh language and tough love to make sure young people living in poverty or in trouble with the law are equipped to survive the demands of the construction site. They note more than 420 young men and women have gained access to lucrative careers in the building trades since the program started almost a decade ago.
But critics paint St. John as a bully whose racial slurs and verbally abusive behaviour demeans and humiliates young people in his training program, many of whom are Black.
Read on: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/10/20/construction-boot-camp-led-to-coveted-trades-jobs-but-according-to-city-documents-some-say-it-came-at-the-cost-of-racial-taunts-and-humiliation.html?source=newsletter&utm_source=ts_nl&utm_medium=email&utm_email=08E13A428AF6E9BE11FFFC109B30A9BC&utm_campaign=tmh_6340&utm_content=a01 (I recommend a barf bag)
Please save us from these self-appointed �experts�. �Annemarie Shrouder - Toronto-based diversity and inclusion expert�. That is even worse than the �Social Justice Reporter� title claimed by the reporter.
Construction sites are pressure cookers. The drive is to deliver a finished project on time and on budget. Workers come from a wide variety of trades and often have never worked together before.
Each job is different, and each site develops a pecking order on the fly. There is no time allotted for decorum, pleasantries or respect. You better show up on time, sober and ready for an 8 to 12 hour shift of hard work. Sacking, tardiness and bitching will not be tolerated.
Drilling that into the heads of people who are unfamiliar with the requirements of skilled trades is a real challenge. Excuses and whining won�t work when you are a tradesman assigned to a job.
Foreman are not bullies, but they will not put up with less than a real effort to get the job done.
Seasoned tradesmen are proud of their skills and tend to be hard on those breaking into the trade. Their skills come from long experience and learning how to get the job done efficiently. They will razz a newcomer and depending on the reaction may be helpful - or not! The newcomer must take some lumps while learning. Getting a ticket is only the start of learning how to do the job.
Enter the busybodies (ahem, experts) who are clueless about anything other than the perception of hurt feelings. They aren�t even well-meaning. They are hell-bent on changing society to a set of rules that are useless outside of their cloistered closets. Let contractors and tradesmen teach the disadvantaged how to fit in to a rough business and be glad they will take the time to do so.
John Feldsted
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