New skills, new hope for workers facing layoffs

Nicholas Willet knows what it’s like to lose his job. The former steelworker has endeared two layoffs, the most recently as part of Algoma Steel’s transformation to electric arc furnaces. More than six years ago after first being laid off from his job in the coke ovens, he completed a welding course at Sault College and eventually found his way back to the steelmaker, where he was recently laid off a second time.Now, he’s banking on an up-skills training program to better prep