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| Business Roundtable effort to retrain ahead of schedule Business Roundtable's Gulf Coast Workforce Development Initiative (GCWDI) announced that it is ahead of schedule in its effort to recruit and train up to 20,000 new construction workers in the Gulf Coast region by the end of 2009. The program provides critically needed new construction workers in the Gulf Coast and empowers the region's workforce with new educational opportunities and career paths. "Just over a year into our ambitious program, we already have over 7,500 training completions, with another 2,000 students enrolled in classes", said Charles O. Holliday, Jr., chairman and CEO of DuPont, and co-chairman of the Gulf Coast Workforce Development Initiative. The GCWDI was conceived and developed by Business Roundtable in response to the devastating storms that ravaged the Gulf Coast of the United States in late 2005. Members of Business Roundtable, 160 CEOs of the nation's leading companies, have spearheaded this public-private partnership by committing up to $5 million in funding to coordinate the training and assist in recruiting participants. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Construction News :: home page |