How Two Organizations Are Finding Workers and Promoting their Trade
The search for solving related and significant workforce issues for a New Jersey-based labor-management association and a local social service organization began over that proverbial “cup of coffee.”
The issue, in its simplest terms, was clear. The Carpenter Contractor Trust was searching for ways to attract recruits to its ranks — men and women who had the brains and temperament to become union carpenters ultimately. A social service organization, the Puerto Rican Association for Human Development Inc. (PRAHD), had thousands of people passing through its offices annually. They understood that those who found a well-paying job could figuratively leapfrog into the middle class.