"National Infrastructure Bank 'Moonshot': Hiring and Training a Workforce for 21st Century Jobs"
Channel: Coalition for a National Infrastructure Bank
Date: 2021-04-09

Webinar, April 9, 2021  

“The National Infrastructure Bank 'Moonshot': Hiring and Training a Workforce for 21st Century Jobs”

Ohio Representative Lisa Sobecki and Pennsylvania Representative Joe Ciresi were joined by a distinguished panel for a webinar on April 9 entitled “The National Infrastructure Bank 'Moonshot': Hiring and Training a Workforce for 21st Century Jobs”.

The webinar focussed on the challenge of assimilating tens of millions of new employees into high-paying jobs in infrastructure projects.

Complementing the Biden jobs plan announced March 31, a new National Infrastructure Bank (NIB) will create 25 million new jobs and launch a training program not seen since the Great Depression and the WWII economic mobilization. The NIB will pay Davis-Bacon wages and collaborate with trade unions and other institutions to create a skilled workforce on a par with any other nation. That workforce will be able to immediately handle entry-level positions in construction and repair and be quickly upgraded to work on the most advanced projects including High-Speed Rail, transmission lines, broadband implementation, water desalination, and power projects. Let's shoot for the moon!

Please join this provocative and educational webinar.

Speakers:
Rep. Joe Ciresi, Pennsylvania legislature
Rep. Lisa Sobecki, Ohio legislature
Rep. Darisha K. Parker, Pennsylvania legislature
James ”Lou” Spencer, Senior Apprentice Training Expert, Camp Springs, MD
Bill Leyden, Business Rep., Elevator Constructors Local 52, Apprenticeship Training Expert, VA
Erika White, President CWA Local 4319; Vice-President NW Ohio AFL- CIO
Pamela Hacker, Construction Electrician, PA  
Alphecca Muttardy, Macroeconomist, 25-year Senior Economist, IMF
Moderator: Robert Lynn, United Association of Plumbers and Steamfitters, Local 50 (ret.) OH