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| Just think how different America would be without these tradesmen of the early 20th century. This group of men are among the many workers who built the Empire State Building which opened in 1931. |
| Skilled Trades |
| The equation is a simple one! |
| "It's organizations like yourself promoting the trades that will excite the next generation to have pride in the trades!!"- Russ Arsenault, GKT Refrigeration, Providence, RI Via Twitter |
| People Say the Nicest Things...And We Appreciate it! |
| "Please continue doing what you're doing. We need trades people in the workforce fast. Thanks for getting the word out." - Debbie Jameson, Welder by Trade, Cedar Rapids, IA Via email |
| It's a no brainer! Without Skilled Trades, there is NO America! |
| Bid on Mike Rowe signed ”Dirty Jobs” items at ebay! All proceeds go towards the mikeroweWORKS Foundation! Closed at $305! Stay tuned for more to come |
| Congratulations to these Iron workers of the new World Trade One in NYC as they all gather for a photograph on May 2, 2013, as the final piece is put on the structure which has been undergoing construction since 2006 |
| It's been a national effort in the construction of World Trade One. Here's a welder in Lynchburg, VA welding steel destined for NYC. |
| Ask yourselves, how would buildings get built if it weren't for skilled trade workers? |
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| For the past few years it has been hard to ignore America’s crumbling infrastructure, from the devastating breach of New Orleans’s levees after Hurricane Katrina to the collapse of a big bridge in Minneapolis in 2007. In 2005 the American Society of Civil Engineers estimated that $1.6 trillion was needed over five years to bring just the existing infrastructure into good repair. Read article at Economist.com |
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| This includes a variety of workers with specialized skills acquired at vocational schools or in on-the-job-training during apprenticeships. The professions include electrician, bricklayer, carpenter, cabinetmaker, mason, plumber and welder. There's a shortage of these workers because so many young people are encouraged to attend four-year colleges, not vocational schools. Also, these jobs are physically demanding. "It's one of the baffling shortages of skills, since they're well-paid, flexible positions," Prising says. "You can have gainful employment for a long time. This isn't work that will be outsourced or disappear. It's locally based work with geographically transferable skills." By Tara Weiss- Forbes |
| "You guys 'rock'! Keep paying it forward and thanks!" -Ken Wallace, Bricklayer (BAC Member Local 1), Owings Mills, MD Via Twitter |