Transition Team in place
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Northern BC – Two familiar faces will be heading up the Province’s transition team, which has been created to help displaced forestry workers transition either into retirement or another field.
In mid-September, Forests Minister Doug Donaldson was in Prince George to announce $69 million in funding to help displaced forestry workers enter early retirement, find temporary employment in the short-term or get training to move into a new field altogether.
Heading up that transition tea is former President of the Steelworkers Union Frank Everitt, who will be joined by Terry Tate who has done this kind of transition work before.
“Back in ’09, 13, we ran a similar program. The government did,” explains Tate, Program Coordinator. “It was transition into retirement, there were training dollars. All those things were in place. So, you sort of learned what worked back then and what some of the pitfalls were.”
