The House Manufacturing Caucus is partnering with the American Manufacturing Communities Collaborative (AMCC) for a briefing entitled National and Regional Tactics to Strengthen the American Manufacturing Workforce on Tuesday, June 7, from 2-3pm EDT.
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We will hear from national and regional leaders engaged in collaborations between industry, government, and labor to strengthen the manufacturing workforce. With technology changing rapidly and manufacturing job openings at record levels, the future of this sector depends on effective, synergistic strategies at the federal, state, and local levels to recruit and upskill workers. The panel will discuss how this can be achieved through local communities coming together to address workforce needs as part of efforts to build a manufacturing economic development ecosystem.

The panel will include:

• Jeannine LaPrad, Managing Director, Policy & Research, National Skills Coalition
• Ron Williams, Director, Center for Strategic Entrepreneurship, Coppin State University
• Zoe Lipman, Industrial Union Council, AFL-CIOBuckley Brinkman, Executive Director/CEO, Wisconsin Center for Manufacturing & Productivity
• Michael Mullins, Director, NC Defense Industry Diversification Initiative, Industry Extension Services, NC State University

Opening remarks:

• Matt Bogoshian, Executive Director, America’s Manufacturing Communities CollaborativeAndrew Stettner, Sr. Fellow, The Century Foundation
• Michael Goff, President/CEO, Northeast-Midwest Institute

This will be the second in a series of seven briefings about the federal manufacturing community designations and each of the six key areas for a thriving manufacturing ecosystem. Here is the link to the first landscape briefing that sets the stage for this upcoming briefing and the entire series.