Creating
and Retaining Good Jobs
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For last year without a doubt the formation of the Artisan Baking Center Partnership was the highlight. This began for us with the Working for America Institute’s conference in New York where I started to learn the groundwork for setting up this kind of program. With the help of the AFL-CIO, WAI, and the Consortium for Worker Education we put together a grant proposal. It was accepted by the Department of Labor. Now, a year later, we are on the verge of opening the Artisan Baking Center for the industry and our members. This is the highlight of my last decade in leadership. For the coming year I am looking forward to the actual opening of the center, getting the programs up and running, and spreading the center’s arms out far and wide. We want to spread the enthusiasm behind this kind of training strategy to our sister locals in the area and around the country. Larry E. Atkins, Secretary-Treasurer, |
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“The
San Francisco Hotel Partnership has continued to expand the ways
that it helps to improve the skills of workers and the quality
of jobs in the San Francisco hospitality industry. Over the next year, we hope to expand the initiative in partnership with other HERE locals in California to address the issues confronting California’s growing hospitality industry.” Mike Casey, President |
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Over the past few years, we have been using training as a vehicle to increase the quality child care and the lives of the workers. Now we are calling on the Commonwealth to require training and certification for home health workers to assure that only qualified and caring workers go into people’s homes. And we will reach out to the workers to enable them to meet the quality standards and demand wages of certified workers.
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