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Case Studies

The case studies in this tool kit are examples of labor-management partnerships that have addressed one or more of the workforce challenges facing the unionized segment of the manufacturing sector. Click on the case name on the left hand side of the chart to access the full case study.

Case Study

Challenge 1:
Increasing firm/facility competitiveness and employee employment security through incumbent Workers’ skills Upgrading

Challenge 2: 
Responding to small and medium size firms’ and/or facilities’ (those with less than 500 employees) recruitment and training needs

Challenge 3: 
Meeting employer demand while minimizing the deleterious effects of layoffs

Challenge 4:  Assuring a pipeline of specialty-skilled workers

Challenge 5:  Integrating workers with limited English proficiency

Challenge 6:  Maintaining the pipeline that channels young workers into manufacturing

Community Learning Center, Inc. and its Aerospace Industry Training Program

 

 

 

CWA-IUE/Visteon Systems “Knowledge is Power” Program

 

 

 

 

Greater-St. Louis Automotive Training Consortium

 

 

 

 

 

Gulf Coast Shipbuilding Partnership’s Transitions Program

 

 

 

 

 

IAM-Boeing Joint Apprenticeship: Quality Through Training Program (QTTP)

 

 

 

 

 

Int’l Brotherhood of Teamsters/Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation School-to-Career Mentoring Program

 

 

 

 

 

Lansing Area Manufacturing Partnership (LAMP)

 

 

 

 

 

RWDSU/UFCW Local 224 – Hasbro, Inc. “English for Speakers of Another Language” Training Program

 

 

 

 

 

Supplier Excellence Alliance/Labor Education and Training Corporation (LETC) California Training Partnership

 

 

 

 

United Steelworkers/US Steel-Fairfield Works Electro-Mechanical Maintenance Career Development Program

 

 

 

 

 

Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership (WRTP)