Updates

Publications The WAI 2001 national conference ushered in a series of new and updated publications. These are currently posted on our website. Action Brief and brochures are available in 3 different downloadable formats allowing you to add your own organizational information for printing or copying.

Current Jobs and Future Options: A Guide for Unions to Educate Youth About Work (guidebook and poster)

Worker-Centered Learning: A Union Guide to Basic Skills

Skill Standards, Unions and Manufacturing in the 21st Century (booklet/free)

Manufacturing Skill Standards Council Skill Standards: A Blueprint for Excellence

Action Briefs on the Workforce Investment Act:

• Setting Priorities for Service
• Ensuring Workers Get The Training They Need
• Requirements for Local Plans: Process and Content
• Wagner -Peyser Funded Activities

Action Briefs on Education, Training and Economic Development:

• Building Adult Basic Skills: Access to Funds/Partners
• Understanding Economic Development
• Finding/Using Labor Market Information for Economic Development

Brochures (also available in Spanish)

• Its Your Job... These Are Your Rights
• It’s the Law... WARN Act
• Trade Act Programs
• Coping with layoff and Plant Closures

Center On Policy Initiatives
Temporary Government: The County of San Diego’s Growing Use of Temporary Workers. San Diego County’s largest public agency and the fourth largest employer is employing more temporary workers than ever before, putting at risk vital public services and endangering the livelihood of hundreds of temps who receive low pay and no health insurance, paid sick days, or pension benefits, according to a major new study by the Center on Policy Initiatives (CPI).

Also look for their recent reports Working on the Margins, an examination of temporary employment in California, and Planning for Shared Prosperity or Growing Inequality?, a good example of an industry cluster study.

Available at www.onlinecpi.org