A Model of Collaboration; Training Alliance Produces Its First Class of Welding Grads
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › December 20, 2006
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Rapid, multilateral cooperation has put 14 hungry workers into decent jobs as welders at Milwaukee's Tramont Corp. And it also has suggested what the region's fragmented work force development efforts can do through employer-driven collaboration.
Six weeks ago, Jessica Cooper, 32, was a food stamp recipient with a work history of hopping between jobs cleaning and caregiving. Now she's in her second week welding steel fuel tanks, which Tramont makes for generator equipment manufacturers.See the full content of this document
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A Model of Collaboration; Training Alliance Produces Its First Class of Welding Grads
On Cooper's third day at work, she welded a 700-gallon tank with no leaks - compared with 15 to 25 leaks that are typical for most new welders, says Tramont's president, Sean McGowan. Six months ago, McGowan turned away $10 million in orders because he didn't have the welders to complete them. And now: "I believe we can ramp up the busine...
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