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Women seeking to enter and move up in apprenticeship and nontraditional
occupations will benefit directly from $610,000 in technical assistance grants
announced today by Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich.
Vice President Al Gore stated, "The grants announced today will help
provide important training for women and, ultimately, better, higher paying
jobs for them. This is good for women and good for the American economy."
"The department's twin objectives in this effort are to improve
opportunities for good jobs for women while building a skilled American
workforce for employers to succeed in today's global market place," Reich said.
The funds come through the Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional
Occupations (WANTO) Act. Under the initiative, four community based
organizations are receiving grants both to provide on-site technical assistance
to employers and labor unions to help develop strategies to increase the
employment of women in apprenticeship and nontraditional occupations; and to
develop an ongoing off-site technical assistance through computer-based
telecommunication service and network, including a 1-800 dial-up system.
The grantees are: (1) Chicago Women in Trades, Chicago; (2) Wider
Opportunities for Women, Washington, D.C.; (3) Women in Non-Traditional
Employment Roles, Long Beach, Calif.; and (4) YWCA's Women in Trades, Memphis
Tenn.
Women's Bureau director-designate Ida L. Castro praised the program as
one that "will enable women to earn good pay and better benefits -- giving
women more flexibility in managing today's work and family balancing act."
The grants and grantees follow:
- $152,734 to Chicago Women in Trades (in partnership with Hard Hatted
Women, Cleveland, Ohio; Minnesota Women in the Trades, St. Paul; Employment
Options, Inc., Madison, Wis; YWCA's Nontraditional Employment Training,
Milwaukee, Wis; and Women's Resource Center, Grand Rapids, Mich) to provide
technical assistance to employers, contractors, and labor organizations on
megaprojects in the Midwest and to develop a regional computer-based
telecommunications network and a 1-800 phone system to assist small- and
medium-sized employers.
- $150,000 to Wider Opportunities for Women, Washington, D.C. to plan
and implement WORKPLACE SOLUTIONS, a computer-based telecommunications
technical assistance service/network and related clearinghouse for promoting
the increase of women in apprenticeship and nontraditional occupations.
- $152,217 to Women in Non-Traditional Employment Roles (WINTER) to
help employers, contractors, labor organizations (including apprenticeship
programs) on megaproject sites located in Southern California recruit, prepare,
and retain women in apprenticeship and NTO.
- $155,049 to YWCA of Greater Memphis/Women in Trades Project to
conduct and evaluate 16 two-day workshops throughout the Mid-South for at least
200 employers and labor unions, including follow-up on-site assistance to
workshop participants; develop and disseminate state resource guides for the
southeast region; and establish a women in apprenticeship and nontraditional
occupations network in the region.
Archived News Release--Caution:
information may be out of date.
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