Labour Market Bulletin Windsor and Essex County

Labour Market Bulletin, First Quarter 2006
An Analysis of the Windsor and Essex County Area Labour Market
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An overview of the Windsor and Essex County labour market.

Windsor's labour force continues to grow despite a drop in employment this quarter
Unemployment rate jumps to an eight year high of 10.2% as a result
Windsor's labour market shows improvement compared with a year ago

Highlights:

While Detroit, Michigan hosted the Super Bowl this year, Windsor and Essex County's hospitality sector benefited with hotel / motel rooms booked, and restaurants, entertainment and cultural venues busy with football fans as well as interested local residents. Super Bowl activities were reported to benefit the area by potentially more than $80 million.
The area braces for the impact of new non-smoking legislation, which is combined with the rising value of the Canadian dollar and premature perception about required documentation to travel into the U.S., to threaten Ontario's largest source of tourists.
Several employers closed this quarter, permanently displacing approximately 225 workers from Southern Wire Products, Industrialex Manufacturing Canada, Federal-Mogul Corp., and Lamb Technicon.
Nemak's Windsor Aluminum plant won a contract to supply General Motors with engine blocks and will preserve jobs. General Motors' Windsor Transmission plant was chosen to build transmissions for the new Saturn 2007 Aura, similarly maintaining employment levels at the plant.
A satellite medical school will be established on the University of Windsor campus and by 2008, will have had 14 first-year students begin undergraduate studies. This initiative will not only create employment in construction and health care sectors but also encourage these students to remain in the community as medical practitioners.

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