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JOTF E-Newsletter The Job Opportunities Task Force (JOTF) is pleased to bring you the latest edition of its electronic newsletter. The JOTF E-Newsletter includes news, announcements, and information about upcoming events in the Baltimore area that we hope will be of interest to you. If your organization would like to publicize an event, job announcement, or other information, please send e-mail to info@jotf.org. In this issue: • JOTF Forum Spotlights
New Report on Training
• Daily
Record: Laundry to Pay $1.83M
• Workforce Network Lunchtime
Professional Development Event
• National Governors Association
Seeks Senior Policy Analyst
• The Workforce Alliance
Releases "Washington Update" for May - June 2004 JOTF NEWS
JOTF FORUM SPOTLIGHTS NEW REPORT ON TRAINING Baltimore's customized job training programs are successfully
placing residents in employment and offer a strong return on taxpayers'
investment, according to a new report by the
Baltimore Workforce Investment Board. Baltimore's Workforce System
at Work was released on June 15 at a public forum presented by JOTF
and Open Society
Institute-Baltimore. The report, by Johns Hopkins University Institute
for Policy Studies researcher Chris Thompson and others, finds that the
city's federally funded job training programs are severely under-funded
despite their success.
JOTF held a breakfast for employers and workforce providers
on June 22 to launch its new "Building Links" project. This
six-month initiative aims to connect businesses that offer entry-level
jobs in the residential construction trades with workforce agencies that
provide job-ready applicants. Over 30 business and workforce agency representatives
attended the breakfast, which was hosted by the Home
Builders Association of Maryland.
Maryland is missing important opportunities to help workers who want to improve their skills through adult basic education. The state needs to increase funding for adult education programs to meet this unmet need. • Nearly 614,000 Maryland adults have less
than a high school diploma, and 86,000 foreign-born workers have limited
English skills. For further details, see JOTF’s report,
Connecting Low-Income Families
to Good Jobs: A Policy Road Map for Maryland. OTHER NEWS DAILY RECORD: LAUNDRY TO PAY $1.83M The Daily Record reports that Up-To-Date Laundry in southwest Baltimore has agreed to pay nearly two million dollars and revise its workplace policies to settle a class action lawsuit brought by African-American employees who charge that the employer engaged in racial discrimination against them. "The nearly 50-year-old business, a commercial laundry south of Baltimore that cleans hospital linens, has been the focus of labor discontent for at least the past five years, involving charges of racial and sexual harassment and obstruction of a union election," states the article. Read Laundry to pay $1.83M. WASHINGTON POST: QUALITY OF NEW JOBS IS FOCUS OF ELECTION-YEAR DEBATE The Washington Post's Jonathan Weisman and Nell Henderson report that the quality of new jobs is the focus of an election-year debate between Democrats and Republicans. The Bush administration focuses on the rise in average hourly earnings, total income, and real disposable personal income while Democrats point to a loss in high-paying jobs. Neither side has much information about the quality of new jobs, which have been added this year. "[Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan] repeated his concern about a growing earnings gap between highly educated skilled workers and those workers with less education and fewer skills. "The result, he said, has been that inflation-adjusted wages have been 'flat to declining' for the lower half of income earners, and rising for the highest-paid quarter of the workforce... "Benjamin Tal, senior economist at CIBC World Markets, said that when the Labor Department's industry trends are compared with much finer occupational trends tracked by the Census Bureau, the pattern is clear: The average wage in industries that gained jobs over the past three years was 30 percent lower than the average wage in industries that lost jobs -- a sharp reversal from the previous five years." Read Quality of New Jobs is Focus of Election-Year Debate. (Free registration required.)
DAILY RECORD: HOME BUILDERS SEEKING
HOUSING AFFORDABILITY Read Home Builders Seeking Housing Affordability.
UPCOMING EVENTS
WORKFORCE NETWORK LUNCHTIME PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EVENT The Workforce Network will host a Business Relations Lunch entitled: "Entrepreneurship as a Workforce Development Strategy" on Wednesday, June 30, 2004 from 1-3 pm at the Maryland Works Training Center in Columbia, MD. For more information contact Sara Muempfer at 410-381-8660, x201.
MARYLAND INSTITUTE FOR EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING
PROFESSIONALS MIETP will host its 2004 Summer Institute, Dependable Strengths: Uncover your Customers' Hidden Potential, from August 9 - 13, 2004 - 9am - 4pm. For cost information and to register, visit the class schedule section of MIETP's website.
MARYLAND WORKS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EVENT (7/13) Maryland Works presents Developing Business Partnerships on July 13, 2004 from 9:00am - 12:00pm in Columbia, MD. For more information
contact Sara
Muempfer at 410-381-8660, x201.
OPPORTUNITIES
NATIONAL GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION SEEKS SENIOR POLICY ANALYST The NGA Center for Best Practices is searching for an outstanding policy analyst to join its Division of Social, Economic and Workforce Programs. Read the full job description.
WPNPC SEEKS JOB DEVELOPER The Washington Village/Pigtown Neighborhood Planning Council (WPNPC) is seeking a Job Developer who will work with employers, clients and case managers to determine appropriate matches to employment opportunities. Read the full job description.
RE-ENTRY PARTNERSHIP SEEKS ADVOCATE/LIAISON The Maryland Re-Entry Partnership (REP) initiative, a public/private partnership designed to provide comprehensive services to formerly incarcerated individuals returning to certain Baltimore neighborhoods, is seeking an Advocate/Liaison. Read the full job description.
CENTER FOR WORKFORCE SUCCESS SEEKS PROGRAM ASSISTANT The Center for Workforce Success (CWS), the training and education affiliate of the National Association of Manufacturers' (NAM's) Manufacturing Institute, is seeking a Program Assistant for Workforce Initiatives. Read the full job description.
HOMELESS PERSONS REPRESENTATION PROJECT SEEKS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The Homeless Persons Representation Project (HPRP), a non-profit legal services program working to eliminate, ameliorate, and prevent homelessness in Maryland, seeks an Executive Director who will be responsible for directing and sustaining its unique community lawyering approach to individual legal representation and systemic advocacy. Read the full
job description. NEW PUBLICATIONS AND RESOURCES
THE WORKFORCE ALLIANCE RELEASES "WASHINGTON UPDATE" FOR MAY-JUNE 2004 TWA's "Washington Update" for May-June 2004 include news on workforce funding, workforce programs, higher education programs, welfare programs, and the results of their state polls on voter opinions about job training. Download the "Washington Update" from the
TWA website at:
CLASP: COMMUNITY COLLEGES INCREASE EARNINGS OF LOW-INCOME PARENTS A new report finds that female welfare recipients in
California who received an Associate's degree or certificate from a community
college earn significantly more than they did before college. The study,
From Jobs to Careers: How California Community College Credentials
Pay Off for Welfare Participants, was conducted by by the
Center for Law and Social Policy [link: http://www.clasp.org]
(CLASP) and the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office. Click here to read the report: http://www.clasp.org/DMS/Documents/1084454956.97/Jobs_Careers.pdf (Opens as PDF file.) Newsletter Co-Editors: Kevin Griffin Moreno and Larry Schugam If you would like to unsubscribe from the JOTF E-Newsletter, send e-mail to info@jotf.org.
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