County Supervisor Candidate Announces Results From First "Preparing our Young People for Jobs in the New Economy" Summit
(Alameda, California) On Thursday, April 27th, Alameda County Supervisor candidate Jim Price brought together representatives from healthcare, construction, and the Building and Trades unions, and representatives from local school districts as well as a representative from Assemblywoman Wilma Chan’s office to discuss creating programs that bring awareness and training to our young people for the many well paying, locally available jobs that employers today are reaching outside the county, the state and even the county to find qualified candidates.
The event identified several partnership opportunities and resulted in the formation of some new relationships between the participating unions and the Alameda Unified School district. “We came away with the realization that creating awareness is the key to helping our young people identify these well paying career opportunities,” Price said. “Some great ideas for creating this awareness came out of the meeting as well. Such as organizing large venue events hosted by unions, the private sector and the public schools which could serve as field trips for students to learn about careers in the fields of healthcare and the building and trades,” Price said
“What we now know is that while the demand in these fields is growing, there is only one new skilled construction worker for every four skilled construction workers who retire and the average age of a healthcare worker is 47 years old and here again we are not bringing in enough replacements,” Price said. “We also know that possessing basic reading, writing and arithmetic skills coupled with the desire to succeed, are the most important pre-requisites for getting started in these careers that can offer a person a real family wage,” Price said. Unfortunately representation from the San Leandro Unified School district was absent from the meeting. “At the time of the meeting San Leandro high school was in lock down following a race riot there. The occurrence followed several days of racial tension between students and resulted in 10 arrests. “This is just another unfortunate example of why we must do more to let our kids know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that the light is not a freight train coming at them,” Price said.
(Alameda, California) On Thursday, April 27th, Alameda County Supervisor candidate Jim Price brought together representatives from healthcare, construction, and the Building and Trades unions, and representatives from local school districts as well as a representative from Assemblywoman Wilma Chan’s office to discuss creating programs that bring awareness and training to our young people for the many well paying, locally available jobs that employers today are reaching outside the county, the state and even the county to find qualified candidates.
The event identified several partnership opportunities and resulted in the formation of some new relationships between the participating unions and the Alameda Unified School district. “We came away with the realization that creating awareness is the key to helping our young people identify these well paying career opportunities,” Price said. “Some great ideas for creating this awareness came out of the meeting as well. Such as organizing large venue events hosted by unions, the private sector and the public schools which could serve as field trips for students to learn about careers in the fields of healthcare and the building and trades,” Price said
“What we now know is that while the demand in these fields is growing, there is only one new skilled construction worker for every four skilled construction workers who retire and the average age of a healthcare worker is 47 years old and here again we are not bringing in enough replacements,” Price said. “We also know that possessing basic reading, writing and arithmetic skills coupled with the desire to succeed, are the most important pre-requisites for getting started in these careers that can offer a person a real family wage,” Price said. Unfortunately representation from the San Leandro Unified School district was absent from the meeting. “At the time of the meeting San Leandro high school was in lock down following a race riot there. The occurrence followed several days of racial tension between students and resulted in 10 arrests. “This is just another unfortunate example of why we must do more to let our kids know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that the light is not a freight train coming at them,” Price said.
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