National Skills Coalition (NSC) and Business Leaders United for Workforce Partnerships (BLU) has convened a Manufacturing Industry Recovery Panel of industry leaders and experts to share recommendations on the Biden Administration’s Made in All of America initiative and related policies through meetings with the Department of Commerce and Congressional leadership.
Consistent with our Inclusive Economic Recovery framework, we want to ensure these initiatives help address: the disproportionate impact of the economic crisis on workers of color, immigrants, and workers with a high school diploma or less; the essential role of businesses who hire locally and invest in their people but need policymakers to be their partner; and the moral and economic imperative to dismantle structural racism within workforce education and training. Skills training alone will not ensure an inclusive recovery, but it must be part of our nation’s federal policy response.
Bishara Addison, Director of Job Preparation, The Fund for Our Economic Future
Rhandi Berth, Vice President, WRTP
Yolanda Edwards, Talent Development Consultant, Caterpillar
Campbell Foster, Senior Director, Autodesk Education Experiences
Mike Gritton, Executive Director, KentuckianaWorks
Kate Guess, Vice President of Human Resources, Vermeer
Scott Jensen, Former Director, Rhode Island Department of Labor
Donny Jones, Executive Director, West Alabama Works
Andrew Lattanner, OMIC Training Center Director, Portland Community College
Keith Lawing, President & CEO, Workforce Alliance of South Central Kansas
Deb Lindner, HR Manager, Precor
Craig McAtee, Executive Director, National Coalition of Advanced Technology Centers
Alejandro Mendoza, Director of Human Resources, Optimax Systems Inc.
Girard Melancon, Vice Chancellor of Workforce Development, Baton Rouge Community College
Omar Nashashibi, Representative, National Tooling and Machining Association and Precision Metalforming Association
Scott Paul, President, Alliance for American Manufacturing
Bill Rayl, President, Jackson Area Manufacturers Association
Erica Swinney Staley, Executive Director, Manufacturing Renaissance
Andy Stettner, Senior Fellow, Century Foundation
Sasha Stolyarov, CEO, Advanced Functional Fabrics of America
Mike Tamasi, President and CEO, AccuRounds
Traci Tapani, Co-President, Wyoming Machine
IPR Perspectives: Skills for an Inclusive Manufacturing Recovery
Read key recommendations from our Manufacturing Industry Recovery Panel experts offered to the Biden administration and Congress
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Skills for an Inclusive Economic Recovery
A call to action that will drive our organization’s work over the next two years, Skills for an Inclusive Economic Recovery is a set of generation-defining investments in inclusive skills policy that contribute to addressing the disproportionate impact of the economic crisis on communities who have long suffered inequities.
Learn MoreNSC and BLU have also convened three other Industry Recovery Panels:
Release: NSC and BLU convening workforce advisory panels
A group of nearly 60 national business leaders, labor leaders, community college leaders, industry training providers, and others will serve on four industry recovery panels that will advise the Biden administration and Congress on federal recovery policies in the coming months.
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