Tag: Trades
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Carhartt Awards “Steel Apple” & Donates $150K to Skilled Trades
To highlight the important role of young talent in skilled industries, Carhartt today unveiled its inaugural “Steel Apple” awards, a new initiative to honor educators shapingthe next generation of skilled trade workers. The awards are an extension of Carhartt’s “For the Love of Labor” program – an ongoing initiative that supports nonprofit organizations as they…
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Parents Support Trade Careers – Research and Careers in Trades Week
Backed by strong bipartisan support, career and technical education programs are flourishing, and careers are projected to experience faster-than-average job growth from 2023 to 2033. They also offer earning potential that exceeds the median wage across all occupations, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). It is, perhaps for these reasons, that 89%…
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Women in skilled trades: are numbers improving?
Construction can learn important lessons from manufacturing when it comes to attracting women to hands-on roles, writes Ridha Shah. The UK construction industry has experienced significant workforce structure changes over the past decade. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), 15% of UK construction professionals are women, with a small percentage in the manual…
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Has Productivity Stalled In The Construction Trades?
Those of us in the construction industry, whether we want to admit it or not, are faced with an unpleasant truth: we haven’t increased our productivity in more than 50 years. According to a research brief published by the Becker-Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago earlier this year (The Strange and Awful…