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Oberg Industries’ tucked away buildings in Freeport, Pennsylvania are easy to miss. But inside the nondescript structures are tidy rows of machinery worth hundreds of thousands of dollars each. In one department, refrigerator-sized electric discharge machines, which cut metal using wire, sizzle away like cooking bacon. In another, workers operate manual machines. In one room a worker runs quality assurance using a high-tech instrument.
Source: WESA-FM
During a tour of Larimer, Federal Housing Administration Commissioner Carol Galante passed dozens of vacant lots and deteriorating houses. But along the way she also passed the neighborhood's Environmental and Energy Outreach Center, a branch of Chatham University, and the popular Bakery Square — signs that one of Pittsburgh's long forgotten neighborhoods is being reborn.
Source: Pittsburgh City Paper
More than 60 percent of the 25,000 jobs available in the Pittsburgh region require specialized technical training - but only 40 percent of them require a four-year degree, according to the Allegheny Conference on Community Development and the Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board.
Source: WESA-FM
The Pittsburgh Promise and Pittsburgh Public Schools are embarking on an innovative education opportunity through the introduction of a workforce development initiative aimed at helping 10(th), 11(th) and 12(th) grade students to pursue career and technical training, workforce certifications and post-secondary education credits beginning in the 2014-15 school year this fall. The program has been designed in collaboration with the Community College of Allegheny County, the Energy Innovation Center, the Sprout Fund, Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board, and other technical schools, and with insight, input and support from the region's employers.
Source: The Providence Journal (via PRNewswire)
The Pittsburgh Promise and Pittsburgh Public Schools on Thursday announced they are launching a workforce development initiative to help students in grades 10-12 pursue career and technical training.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
The Pittsburgh Promise plans to announce today students could use their post-secondary scholarship money for certain career and technology programs at Community College of Allegheny County while still in high school.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Manufacturers across the United States are targeting schools and colleges to let young people know there is more to manufacturing than pulling levers on an assembly line.
Source: Dubuque Telegraph Herald
Manufacturers across the United States are targeting schools and colleges to let young people know there is more to manufacturing than pulling levers on an assembly line.
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Manufacturers across the United States are targeting schools and colleges to let young people know there is more to manufacturing than pulling levers on an assembly line.
Source: USA Today
U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker toured U.S. Steel’s Irvin plant in West Mifflin Thursday with U.S. Steel President and CEO Mario Longhi and United Steelworkers Union President Leo Gerard, then exchanged ideas with local leaders about training skilled workers.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Pittsburgh offices of PA CareerLink will move from its current office at 425 Sixth Ave. to Wood Street Commons, where it will reopen on Monday, May 5.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez announced Monday that his department has just made $150 million available for job training that he repeatedly said will help workers “punch their ticket to the middle class.”
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The National Fund for Workforce Solutions included information about Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board and two of its funded job training programs in the April 2014 newsletter, National Fund News.
Source: National Fund News
In another endorsement of Western Pennsylvania's post-industrial recovery, President Obama on Wednesday called the Community College of Allegheny County “an outstanding model” of job creation worthy of national replication.
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Eight of the region’s 57 largest private companies, three of the 20 largest financial institutions and two of the locally based public companies are currently led by women.
But there is the issue of compensation, and the pay gap between men and women remains daunting. In 2013, women working full-time in the Pittsburgh metro area earned an average salary of $36,861, while their male counterparts were paid $50,771, according to The National Partnership for Women & Families.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
Finding the right job is closely tied to the education and skills you have. That’s why the Labor Department is so focused on doing everything we can to connect ready-to-work Americans with ready-to-be filled jobs – and to connect employers with skilled workers.
Source: US Department of Labor official blog
In this letter to the Business Editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 3RWIB CEO Stefani Pashman details the need for more employment opportunities for teens.
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Pittsburgh region has experienced great economic opportunity in recent years, but not every neighborhood has been able to take advantage of that opportunity, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald said Wednesday
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald said to build Pittsburgh International Airport up to a major hub, it's going to take cooperation from Pittsburgh companies.
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times
For Jade Morel, the labor landscape in Pennsylvania looks a lot different from what it did when she was growing up near Johnstown.
Morel, 35, had to move to Texas for a job in the drilling industry after she graduated from Penn State in 2001. She's now living in Sewickley with steady work as an engineering manager at Chief Oil & Gas LLC in Wexford.
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review