A plank in Unifor’s newly minted auto policy says the national union is moving to create more equitable and inclusive workplaces. And one Windsor workplace training program says it’s trying to help the industry do it.
“The auto sector continues to lag on diverse workforce representation,” Unifor’s new auto policy reads.
According to Unifor, women represent one-quarter of workers in Canada’s auto industry, which is below the number in Canada’s manufacturing sector overall.
The union says Indigenous workers are about four per cent of the Canadian workforce, but they’re 1.5 per cent below that in the auto industry.
Black women and women of colour, meanwhile, represent
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