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Labour Market Bulletin, First Quarter 2005
An Analysis of the Chatham-Kent Area Labour Market
Human Resource Centre of Canada
An overview of the Chatham-Kent area.
A drop in full-time workers pushed the unemployment rate up in the Windsor-Sarnia Economic Region (570).
Labour force and employment levels are up sharply from a year ago.
In the first quarter, employment in manufacturing and agriculture went up but dropped in most of the other sectors.
Highlights:
- In April 2005 Autoliv Canada in Tilbury presented its new addition to the public. The expansion will allow increased production of inflatable curtain side airbags. More employees are expected to be hired.
- An unusually warm fall caused tons of sugar beets to rot in the piling yards resulting in local farmers losing millions of dollars.
- Chatham-Kent, like several areas in Ontario , set home sale and home price records in 2004. Demand has remained strong in early 2005 with first quarter sales up slightly from one year ago.
- First Pro Shopping Centres is continuing with phase two of a multi-million dollar construction project which began last year. Phase two will include the construction of a 91,000 square-foot Loblaw’s Great Canadian Superstore grocery store.
- Canril Corporation has commenced construction on a 65,000 square-foot Home Depot on 7.5 acres of severed farmland. A job fair is expected to be held this summer to fill retail jobs created by this store.
- Wheels Inn, Chatham-Kent’s full service resort hotel, has been undergoing a major renovation project which will take four years to complete.
- YA Canada has purchased a new mail processing machine. The year- old plant is celebrating its first anniversary by employing 100 new employees
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