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Resources For Members
Canadian Institute of Steel Construction (CISC)
Advocate, teacher, promoter. The Canadian Institute of Steel Construction (CISC) is Canada’s voice for the steel construction industry.
Canadian Welding Bureau (CWB)
The CWB Group is an industry supported private sector not for profit organization providing welding certification, management systems registration and training services to over 7600 companies in 34 countries. Supported through the Canadian Welding Bureau, QUASAR and Canadian Welding Association membership, the CWB Group provides a comprehensive and integrated service to the welding and joining industry.
Certificate of Recognition (COR™)
A national accreditation standard that verifies full implementation of an employer’s Occupational Health and Safety Management System.
Construction Employers Coordinating Council of Ontario (CECCO)
Established in 1979 by the unionized construction industry to coordinate collective bargaining on behalf of designated Employer Bargaining Agencies responsible for the negotiation of province-wide single-trade agreements applicable to the ICI sectors of the construction industry.
Council of Ontario Construction Associations (COCA)
The Council of Ontario Construction Associations (COCA) is a federation of construction associations; the largest and most representative group of ICI and heavy civil construction employers in Ontario. Our member organizations represent more than 10,000 construction businesses and more than 400,000 employees.
Infrastructure Health & Safety Association (IHSA)
IHSA is the leading developer and provider of prevention solutions for work environments involving high-risk activities such as working at heights, working with energized high-voltage power systems, powerline technician apprenticeship, driving motor vehicles, transporting dangerous goods, working on suspended access equipment, and utility line clearing.
Ironworker Management Progressive Action Cooperative Trust (IMPACT)
IMPACT is a labor management partnership designed to provide a forum for union Ironworkers and signatory contractors to address mutual concerns and encourage reasonable balanced solutions. Our primary mission is to expand job opportunities through progressive and innovative labor management cooperative programs.
Ironworkers
The road to becoming a journeyman ironworker is through apprenticeship training. The Iron Workers apprenticeship program is a well-organized and supervised method of training people, with little or no knowledge of the craft, to become journeymen ironworkers qualified in all segments of the trade.
Local 793 International Union of Operating Engineers
Local 793 of the International Union of Operating Engineers represents thousands of crane and heavy equipment operators in Ontario’s construction industry.
Ontario Construction Secretariat (OCS)
The twenty five organized building trade unions (workers) and the signatory contractors (employers) of Industrial, Commercial and Institutional (ICI) construction are the grass-root business partners comprising the OCS. Together with representatives from the Provincial Government, we form a tripartite organization intended to enhance the well being of organized ICI construction in Ontario.
Ontario Prompt Payment
Prompt Payment Ontario (PPO) is a sole-purpose alliance or coalition of contractor associations, unions, suppliers, general contractors, pension trust funds, and anyone else who has an interest is seeing prompt payment legislation enacted in the province of Ontario.
Its purpose and goal are just that, to persuade the Ontario government that delinquent payment is a growing problem in the construction industry and that legislation is need to ensure that money flows as it is intended down through the contractor supply chain.
Ontario Structural Steel Fabricators Association
Promoting and advancing the use of steel in the Structural Steel Industry. To cooperate with the Canadian and American Institutes of Steel Construction and other associations.
Ontario Trades Training Information
Check out one of the many paths into the skilled trades – your journey is mapped out by you.
Operating Engineers 22-25
Find information about the OE Provincial Agreement 2022 -2025 here