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Labor committee and training providers plan targeted HCST outreach and job‑match events
Summary
Committee breakout sessions focused on connecting Highway Construction Skills Training (HCST) graduates with contractors. Members agreed to pursue a living list of graduates, trial regional job fairs timed to construction season, and mentoring and outreach steps before the next annual DBE summit.
The stakeholder advisory committee’s business and labor breakout sessions prioritized direct workforce connections: how to make HCST graduates visible to prime contractors and how to stage targeted job‑matching events ahead of the construction season.
John Swan (Laborers Local 113 secretary‑treasurer) and John Anderson (WRTP Big Step/H CST partner) co‑facilitated the labor subcommittee. They reported a plan to use a new listing of HCST graduates that appears in the summer edition of the DOT’s DBE Reporter. The list contains graduate names, graduation dates, trade of…
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