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WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 17, 1982, PAGE 5 Re,-training needed to meýet "high tecýh" fut ure Steps are belng taken by local industry and Durhamf College to re- train workers who have been laid off, or whoee jobs have become 'Ire- dundant" because of new technology. The Durham Orgami- zation for Industrial- Tralning (DO-IT) an- nounced Thursday at a press conference it plans to start technical re-training programs and simulated work situations at Durham College sometime in January 1983. DO-lT, a committee of industrial- people who make recommendations to government on re- trai*ng needs, pro- posed the new program after a survey revealed there will be la net re- quireinent of 2e489 technical workers - in Durham Region by 1985. This translates- into a projected shortage of 1,043 'skilled workers, the survey concludes. Industries surveyed in- cluded such occupations as tool and die makers, metal workers, indus- trial 'mechanics and draftspersons. "The future challeng- es to industry, are in realizing that with the dramatic changes going on in industry, our train- ing must meet the new needs," said Gord Mc- Crae, DO-IT's Durham College representative. He suggested thât a trained electrician who can no longer find work in bis field could be re- trained, in the use of robotics in factories. "The occupations wili not disappear with the new technologes," Mc- Crae said. "But the skills of workers will have to be changed and upgraded." DO-IT's proposal for re-training, which still needs the approval of, THE DO IT REPORT Durham Organlzation For Industrisi Tralnlng Hydro rates to jump seven per cent Whitby residenits can exPect to pay an aver- age of seven par cent more on their hydro bill on January 1, the gener- ai manager of Whitby Hydrù Electric Com-. mission said F'riday. Tom, May said the commission voted to in- crease the rates because Ontario Hydro will be raising its rates 8.2 par cent. "Ontario Hydro in- creased their rates with us and we b-ave to re- flect that, " May said. Residential rates- for Whitby will go up 6.9 par cent, .and, commercial rates will be raised by 7.2 par cent. The Commission will absorb the difference between the increase by Ontario Hydro (8.2 par cent) and the average increase to consurners (7 par cent). May said the commis- sion couIc!, absorb, the entire increase, or raise the rates to the full levy charged by- Ontario Hydro. "W're caught under the government, re- straint program too," May said, explaiming the commission- must try to keep its costs within the restraint guidelines. Theincrease will af- fect about 12,000 con- sumers in Whitby, who met with a similar in- crease a year ago when Ontario HydIro passed on higher costs. Job placement. The, program for journeymen would pro- vide one day par week of classroom instruction at Durham College with the purpose of- re- training workers in more highly technical areas. "Instead of training clerk/typists, we'll be training people to use_ word processors,"1 Mc- Crae said. Just how many people in Durham Region would ýbenefit from the Program is unknown, but McCrae suggested the federal government for funding-, would add- ress two groups of work- ers, journeymen who. have been laid off, and apprentices who are unable to complete their training because of a lay-off. i The program for ap- prentices would include one day of instruction per- week and four days in a simulated job situa- tion at Durham College. It would mean that people who are part- way through an appren-, ticeship in a particular trade would bave an op- portumity to complete the apprenticeship and get credit for work ex- perience despite their lay-off. DO-IT chairman Harr.y Tresise said the success 0f the appren- ticeship .program depends on industry crediting the simulated work situations as ac- tual work experience. 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