The benefit to us is a competitive advantage. The joint educational program is a benefit which attracts high-quality new employees, retrains our current employees in critical skills, and retains a quality employee base. It enhances their employment security by enabling workers to upgrade their skills, making them more marketable for jobs inside and outside the industry. They attract new business and help retain and grow established ones. Education can help make sure that communities don t stagnate as technology advances.
Communities can grow and thrive.
Participation by all ranges of seniority, from new hires on up. High satisfaction with programs as expressed through surveys of participants and of union and company representatives. Disseminate information and provide support to establish new workplace educational programs that are based upon joint educational program model principals across industries.