The Iowa Works Campaign
The Iowa economy is faced with an unprecedented challenge. Increasingly, today’s jobs—even those at the entry-level—require far more technical and basic skills than similar positions did just a couple of decades ago. Demand for skilled workers is outpacing their supply within key industries in local labor markets throughout the state. Without skills, Iowa workers face increasing difficulties in securing a family-supporting wage. Without skilled workers, Iowa businesses cannot compete, or even survive, in a high-tech, globalized economy.
The Iowa Works Campaign is a non-partisan coalition of diverse organizations seeking consensus solutions to Iowa's economic challenges that benefit workers, businesses and communities alike. The members of this coalition are united in the belief that Iowa needs an educated and skilled workforce in order to ensure its economic success and provide a broadly shared prosperity to all Iowans. Coalition members have endorsed a 4-Point Plan, “Meeting Iowa’s Workforce Challenge: A Call to Action for Iowa’s New Governor and General Assembly”, as a means to achieve that goal. The Association of Iowa Workforce Partners is a coalition member and sponsor of the Iowa Works Campaign.
Meeting Iowa’s Workforce Challenge: A Call to Action for Iowa's New Governor and General Assembly
Iowa Works Campaign Legislative Agenda
Endorsing Organizations: (As of January, 2007)
AFSCME Iowa Council 61
Association of Business and Industry
Association of Iowa Workforce Partners
Central Iowa Apprenticeship Coordinators Committee
Community Action Agency of Siouxland
Child and Family Policy Center
Des Moines Area Community College
Eastern Iowa Community College District
Greater Des Moines Partnership
Hawkeye Community College Iow@Work
Indian Hills Workforce Development
Iow@Work Region 9
Iow@Work Region 12
Iow@Work Region 16
Iowa Association of Area Agencies on Aging
Iowa Association of Career and Technical Education
Iowa Association of Community College Trustees
Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce
Iowa Community Action Association
Iowa Lakes Community College
Iowa/Nebraska Primary Care Association
Iowa Health Care Association
Iowa United Auto Workers
Iowa Western Community College
Iowa Workforce Development Board of Directors
Iowans for Sensible Priorities
ISED (Iowans for Social and Economic Development)
Kirkwood Community College
North Iowa Area Community College
Northeast Iowa Community College
Northwest Iowa Labor Council
Proteus, Inc.
Region 1 Employment and Training
SEIU/Iowa for Health Care
State Public Policy Group, Inc.
Southeastern Community College
Southwestern Community College
Technology Association of Iowa
United Way of Central Iowa
United Way of Jasper County
Western Iowa Tech Community College
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