America's Training Needs: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Employment and Productivity of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundredth Congress, First Session on Reviewing the Subject of Training and Retraining of American Workers, March 6, 1987, Volumul 4

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Pagina 3 - Mr. Chairman, I commend you for holding this hearing, and I look forward to the testimony of...
Pagina 263 - Moreover f once infrastructure and some institutional cohesion became a reality in the employer-based training world, it would be a lot easier to talk about partnerships between employment training professions and public education and training institutions and their counterpart institutions in the workplace. Over the past twenty years, educators and public job trainers have attempted to make the connection to workplace training institutions with relatively little success largely because their counterpart...
Pagina 1 - Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 9:35 am, pursuant to notice, in room SD-430, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Senator Paul Simon (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding.
Pagina 258 - Committee in the Senate and the Education and Labor Committee in the House largely operate through publicly appropriated delivery systems.
Pagina 96 - Labor also stated in 1986 that "many of the fears regarding advance notification have not been realized in practice.
Pagina 199 - Information and reporting. о The Secretary's Task Force on Economic Adjustment and Worker Dislocation, chaired by former Under Secretary of Labor Malcolm Lovell, found that "responses to worker dislocation from both government and the private sector have been spotty and narrowly focused, and the United States lacks a comprehensive, coordinated strategy to deal with the problem".
Pagina 252 - Our members manage an employer learning system that includes as much as $180 billion in informal on-the-job training and an additional $30 billion in formalized learning paid for by employers. By way of comparison, this $210 billion learning system is roughly the same size as the nation's public elementary, secondary and higher education institutions. It is our view that this learning system is the nation's first line of defense against economic and technological change. The ability of American employees...
Pagina 131 - Most of that — over 90 percent — was invested in upgrading the skill level of existing employees. The $44 million does not include the cost of employees' salaries and benefits while training occurs - that cost is additional. Thus, the total investment is over $100 million when participant salary, benefit and lost opportunity costs are included. This investment resulted in providing over 2 million hours of training to our US employees.
Pagina 103 - ONE FOR INDUSTRY, OR LABOR, OR GOVERNMENT, ALONE. RATHER IT IS THE CONCERN OF EVERY CITIZEN. PROTECTING THE COUNTRY'S INVESTMENT IN HUMAN CAPITAL ENSURES A MORE PRODUCTIVE, MORE FULLY EMPLOYED SOCIETY FOR ALL. ...THE PROBLEM IS OF SUFFICIENT MAGNITUDE AND URGENCY THAT IT DEMANDS AN EFFECTIVE COORDINATED RESPONSE WITH SPECIAL PRIORITY BY BOTH THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS.
Pagina 26 - ... intended to foster understanding, acceptance, and involvement with regard to Federal manpower policies and programs and to gain the participation of labor and management in employment and training programs. There are two major efforts underway - those conducted by the National Alliance of Businessmen (NAB) and the Human Resources Development Institute (HRDI) of the AFL-CIO. The National Alliance of Businessmen works with- the business community at all levels to promote the involvement of private...

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