Community Workforce Agreements: Pathway to Career Opportunities

“This report introduces CWAs and describes critical components that enhance their success. It highlights the benefits of these agreements to many stakeholders, including disadvantaged workers, community-based organizations, organized labor, and the owners or leaders of public and private construction projects. Case studies from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Cleveland, Ohio, provide insight into how CWAs have been developed and implemented” (p.1). (Abstractor: Author)

“The implementation of CWAs demonstrates that these agreements can play a key role in providing local, minority, and female workers with access to high-quality careers. Several common lessons have emerged in Milwaukee, Cleveland, and around the country. • Community groups and Building Trades Councils must work in tandem. This becomes easier as the stakeholders build a robust relationship with mutual trust. • Training programs must provide employers with referrals of workers who are fully prepared to work. This preparation is a difficult task for the most disadvantaged and least educated people in the community. • Enforcement is needed to secure success. However, employers that have achieved CWA goals can become key supporters of future agreements” (p.9).(Abstractor: Author)

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• Resource Publication Date: 2013
• Author(s): Lujan, Art; Balistreri, Lyle A.; Soggs, Loree K.
• Organizational Author(s): Jobs for the Future
• Funding Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
• Resource Availability: Publicly available
• Posted by: Justin Venneri
• Posted in: Workforce System Strategies