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To ensure that workers’ interests are represented, the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 requires that each state and local Workforce Investment Board include two or more labor representatives. Until June 2004, the AFL-CIO Working for America Institute was able to help labor’s WIB members serve more effectively through a program of training and technical support funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Labor.
The High Road Network will now provide those services to WIB labor representatives.
The Network will be a project of the AFL-CIO Working for America Institute, which will provide the Network with staff and services. This role is consistent with the Institute’s mission to build a “high road economy” based on innovation, quality and skill, rather than low wages and diminishing benefits. The new project will allow the Institute to continue to support the work of WIB labor representatives and their allies to build that high road economy.
While the High Road Network will enroll WIB labor representatives and other WIB members as voting members, membership in this project is also open to all workforce practitioners who want the public workforce system to adopt high road policies.
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Labor in the Board Room: A Nominating Guide for Labor Federations
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) – the investigative arm of Congress – issued a 2005 report on apprenticeship programs that confirmed the arguments that building and construction trades unions had been making for some time: union apprenticeship programs (union and employer programs) had higher completion rates and higher wages than employer-only programs. Based on this and other findings, the report recommends a number of changes to the Labor Department’s administration of apprenticeship programs. For a summary of key findings download