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A "Milwaukee Plan" For Construction Trade Apprenticeships? Workforce Challenges For 2014, Lois M. Quinn, John Pawasarat
A "Milwaukee Plan" For Construction Trade Apprenticeships? Workforce Challenges For 2014, Lois M. Quinn, John Pawasarat
ETI Publications
In 1970 the Labor Department called for a “Milwaukee Plan” that over five years would bring the number of African Americans employed in skilled construction jobs proportional to their percentage of the population (i.e. 11-12% in the city of Milwaukee and 6-7% in the four-county area). As an alternative, the Milwaukee Building and Construction Trades Council worked with the Milwaukee Urban League to create a Labor Education Advancement Program (LEAP) that helped bring 104 African American apprentices (or 9% of the total) into the trades as of 1973. In the past forty years the minority population of the Milwaukee metro …
Who's Building Milwaukee? Race/Ethnicity Of Employees In The Largest Construction Firms In The Milwaukee Area, Lois M. Quinn
Who's Building Milwaukee? Race/Ethnicity Of Employees In The Largest Construction Firms In The Milwaukee Area, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunities Commission requires private companies with 100 or more workers to report annually on the race/ethnicity and gender of their workforce by ten occupational groupings. The EEOC summaries of this data for the four-county Milwaukee metropolitan area help measure the economic health of the construction industry as well as the commitment of the largest firms to hiring of African American, Hispanic and other minority workers. The report focuses on the race/ethnicity of employees in the blue collar occupational areas (skilled craft workers, semi-skilled operatives including apprentices, and unskilled laborers) and at the executive and managerial levels. …
Building On African American Assets: Resource Data For The One Mke Summit, Lois M. Quinn
Building On African American Assets: Resource Data For The One Mke Summit, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
The ONE MKE Summit has raised important concerns about who defines the assets of Milwaukee neighborhoods and where the considerable income of residents in central city neighborhoods is spent. This paper, prepared for the NAACP Young Adult Committee and the African American Chamber of Commerce, details Census Bureau American Community Survey five-year estimates for 2011 by zip code and race to help describe concentrations of income for African Americans. Purchasing power profiles prepared from the 2000s are included to show the comparative advantages of urban neighborhoods with dense housing and large numbers of workers. African American residents of Milwaukee County …
Who's Training Milwaukee's Future Builders? Race/Ethnicity Of Construction Trade Apprentices In The Milwaukee Area, Lois M. Quinn
Who's Training Milwaukee's Future Builders? Race/Ethnicity Of Construction Trade Apprentices In The Milwaukee Area, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
This report provides racial/ethnicity and gender data on apprentices by construction trade joint apprenticeship committee, based on data from the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development Bureau of Apprenticeship Standards. Part One examines hiring patterns of 15 union joint apprenticeship committees serving the Milwaukee area with report cards provided for 217 contractors with apprentices. Part Two identifies the apprentice levels sponsored by 120 union contractors through the statewide Wisconsin Operating Engineers Joint Apprenticeship Committee. Part Three analyzes the apprenticeship patterns for 81 non-union contractors with apprentices through the Associated Builders & Contractors of WI-Waukesha Joint Apprenticeship Committee. The data are provided …
Analysis Of Milwaukee Births: Diversity And Concentration, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
Analysis Of Milwaukee Births: Diversity And Concentration, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
The Employment and Training Institute analyzed the city of Milwaukee annual birth data to assist planning by Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent Gregory Thornton. A total of 106,767 children were born to mothers living in the city of Milwaukee over the ten-year period from 1999 through 2008. All race/ethnicity data refer to the mother’s identity. Annual births to Milwaukee residents remained stable at around the 10,500 level from 1999 through 2005, and then increased to 11,372 in 2007 and 11,131 in 2008. Milwaukee births reflect a highly diverse city. A 16% decline in the number of white births over the 10-year …
Analysis Of Affirmative Action Plans Adopted By Milwaukee Area Joint Apprenticeship Committees, Lois M. Quinn
Analysis Of Affirmative Action Plans Adopted By Milwaukee Area Joint Apprenticeship Committees, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
In 2006 and 2010, the state Bureau of Apprenticeship Standards provided copies of the affirmative action plans adopted by Milwaukee area local joint apprenticeship committees (JACs) in response to an open records law request from the NAACP Milwaukee Branch. This paper examines the documents provided to the NAACP in light of standards established by federal and state regulations governing construction trade apprenticeship programs. A brief summary is also included of the federal code of regulations (29 CFR 30) and the Wisconsin Administrative Code (DWD 296) governing affirmative action requirements for apprenticeship sponsors.
Who Gets Construction Jobs And Where? Employment Of African Americans, Hispanics And Total Minorities In The Construction Industry And Construction Trades In The Milwaukee Msa, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
Who Gets Construction Jobs And Where? Employment Of African Americans, Hispanics And Total Minorities In The Construction Industry And Construction Trades In The Milwaukee Msa, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
This report uses three decades of U.S. Census data to assess employment patterns by race/ethnicity in the construction sector and construction trades in the City of Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, and the four-county Milwaukee MSA. Historical participation of African Americans and Hispanics in construction occupations are tracked for 1980, 1990 and 2000, using Census Special Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Tabulation files. Worksite analysis and maps using Census 2000 place-of-work data only recently made available show where whites, African Americans, and Hispanic workers are employed. Worksite employment is analyzed using place-of-work special tables from the Census Transportation Planning Package (CTPP2000), released in …
Report Card On Minority And Female Participation In Construction Trade Apprentices In The Milwaukee Area: Who's In The Pipeline For Skilled Construction Trades, Lois M. Quinn, Ruth Zubrensky
Report Card On Minority And Female Participation In Construction Trade Apprentices In The Milwaukee Area: Who's In The Pipeline For Skilled Construction Trades, Lois M. Quinn, Ruth Zubrensky
ETI Publications
This report provides racial/ethnicity and gender data on apprentices in the construction trades in the Milwaukee metro area from 1999 to 2005. The data has been supplied by the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) Bureau of Apprenticeship Standards (BAS). The report analyzes these records to drill down to the level of individual employers and joint apprenticeship committees, where decisions are made related to employment of apprentices. Report cards are provided for 475 Milwaukee area companies with construction trade apprentices, 14 Milwaukee and Waukesha area joint apprenticeship committees (JACs), one statewide committee, and one non-union program.
Confronting Anti-Urban Marketing Stereotypes: A Milwaukee Economic Development Challenge, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
Confronting Anti-Urban Marketing Stereotypes: A Milwaukee Economic Development Challenge, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
Working with the Helen Bader Foundation and the Milwaukee Department of City Development, the Employment and Training Institute has developed purchasing power profiles for Milwaukee neighborhoods and commercial districts. These profiles utilize current state income tax records, local property files, business phone listings, state driver's license files, motor vehicle records, and state and federal mortgage lending databases to identify the purchasing power that comes from urban population densities and concentrations of income and to describe economic trends of interest to retailers and other commercial businesses. As part of the project, ETI examined the information reports and stereotypes about Milwaukee neighborhoods …