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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 …
Drilldown On African American Male Unemployment And Workforce Needs, John Pawasarat
Drilldown On African American Male Unemployment And Workforce Needs, John Pawasarat
ETI Publications
The American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau has become a primary federal source of demographics on the unemployed population by age, race, sex, education levels, and disabilities and offers a valuable tool for workforce planning. This report for the Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board examines the employment of African American males in Milwaukee County and presents unemployment rates among African American males by geography and age. The ACS offers useful benchmark data on the African American male population, particularly when combined with institutional data sources, including the income maintenance files of FoodShare and BadgerCare Plus enrollees, the …
Losing Ground: 2010 Report Card On Apprentices In The Construction Trades, Lois M. Quinn
Losing Ground: 2010 Report Card On Apprentices In The Construction Trades, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
This report provides racial/ethnicity and gender data on apprentices by construction trade joint apprenticeship committee, as of January 2010, based on data provided to the NAACP – Milwaukee Branch by the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development Bureau of Apprenticeship Standards. The hiring patterns of 16 union joint apprenticeship committees serving the Milwaukee area are analyzed and report cards provided for 341 contractors with apprentices. A second analysis examines the hiring patterns of 102 nonunion contractors with apprentices. This is the third report prepared by the NAACP and ETI to track hiring and training of apprentices in the construction trades. Construction …
Understanding The Unemployed Workforce In Milwaukee County, John Pawasarat
Understanding The Unemployed Workforce In Milwaukee County, John Pawasarat
ETI Publications
For this report the Employment and Training Institute analyzed the employment history of 48,131 workers in Milwaukee County who were laid off their jobs and recently have received unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. Five quarters of wages were examined, and six difficult-to-serve subpopulations were examined in detail -- ex-offenders in the Department of Corrections system, participants in the Shares child care subsidy program, public assistance cases with children, adult FoodShare cases with no children, aged and/or disabled population on public assistance, and W-2 cases. The strength of the analysis and its timing are that it captures a large portion of the …
Report Card On Apprentices By Construction Trades: A Two-Year Progress Report, Lois M. Quinn, Ruth Zubrensky
Report Card On Apprentices By Construction Trades: A Two-Year Progress Report, Lois M. Quinn, Ruth Zubrensky
ETI Publications
In collaboration with the Employment and Training Institute, the Milwaukee Branch of the NAACP issued a report card on minority and female participation in construction trade apprenticeship programs in the Milwaukee metro area. The report details progress made in the past two years for apprentices sponsored by 18 area joint apprenticeship committees, utilizing data from the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development Bureau of Apprenticeship Standards. Individual report cards are provided for 519 individual companies operating in the Milwaukee area with construction trade apprentices, as of September 20, 2007. A second report assessed progress in employment by each of the joint …
The Earn (Early Assessment And Retention Network) Model For Effectively Targeting Wia And Tanf Resources To Participants, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
The Earn (Early Assessment And Retention Network) Model For Effectively Targeting Wia And Tanf Resources To Participants, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
his technical assistance project was developed by the Employment and Training Institute for the Milwaukee Area Workforce Investment Board to demonstrate the advantages of implementing a large-scale comprehensive data-driven IT capacity for administering WIA and TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) training programs. Longitudinal state wage match data, WIA data bases, welfare files, corrections data, and driver’s license records provide essential program planning and evaluation tools to assess the effectiveness of program interventions by client characteristics and can offer an early warning system for agencies on their progress on measures of post-program employment outcomes. The key lesson of the project …
Employment And Training Needs Of Central City Milwaukee Workers, A Survey Of 518 Innercity Milwaukee Households In December 1996, Lois M. Quinn
Employment And Training Needs Of Central City Milwaukee Workers, A Survey Of 518 Innercity Milwaukee Households In December 1996, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
A random sample of 518 households with working age adults was interviewed for nine zipcode areas in the Community Development Block Grant/Enterprise Community neighborhoods in order to obtain data on the training and employment needs of central city Milwaukee residents. Nearly half (48 percent) of all working age central city households had someone who was interested in job training to upgrade skills or to prepare for a new job. The most frequently requested training was in computer skills, listed by about a fourth of persons indicating an interest in upgrading their skills. A high proportion of workers expressed interest in …