Workforce Issues
- Keep on top of the latest workforce
issues from the Workforce Investment Act Implementation
to the latest US DOL initiatives in building regional
consortia.
- Shape the best practices under WIA
at the state and local level with other program operators
and policy makers.
- Learn about program operations from
the experts including program design, start up and
ongoing fiscal administration.
- Gain insights into the changing structure
of the economy, jobs and emerging workforce issues.
Capacity Community and Sector Initiatives
- Examine partnership development with
community organizations, employers and unions with
the leaders building sector-based organizations.
- See how unions and communities are
using research, analysis and labor market information
as tools for strategic planning, organizational development
and standards selling.
- Discover how organizations are successful
at developing issues that connect with broader community
and workplace concerns.
- Find out strategies for generating
resources in support of your initiatives from others
who have been successful.
Special This Year
- Pre-conference
options: grant writing, working with unions, Union
meetings.
- New publication and materials: Workforce
Investment Act, High Road Regional Partnership Report,
Regional Assessments, Youth Information, Conference
Journal and more.
- Site
visits to some of the largest, most successful
labor operated training and modernization programs
in the nation: Consortium for Worker Education, the
Garment Industry Development Corp, The Hospital League/1199
Training and Upgrading Fund
Invited Speakers
John Sweeney, President
AFL-CIO
Alexis Herman, Secretary of Labor
John Wilhelm, President Hotel & Restaurant Employees
Dennis Archer, Mayor of Detroit
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Lt. Governor of Maryland
Spring in New York:
A Mother's Day Reception
and special conference rates at one of the finest union
hotels and historic addresses in New York City...
The
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
(click on link for hotel information, directions, weather,
video tour and more!)
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