Industry Recovery Panels

National Skills Coalition (NSC) and Business Leaders United for Workforce Partnerships (BLU) are convening Industry Recovery Panels to ensure federal recovery initiatives include investments in workforce training and supports to help workers and businesses adapt to structural shifts in their industries.

A group of more than 60 national business leaders, labor leaders, community college leaders, industry training providers, and others will serve on four industry recovery panels that will advise the Biden administration and Congress on federal recovery policies in the coming months.

Shaping the Recovery

Consistent with our Inclusive Economic Recovery framework, the Industry Recovery Panels will help address:

The disproportionate impact of the economic crisis on workers of color, immigrants, and workers with a high school diploma or less;
The essential role of businesses who hire locally and invest in their people but need policymakers to be their partner;
And the moral and economic imperative to dismantle structural racism within workforce education and training.

Skills training alone will not ensure an inclusive recovery, but it must be part of our nation’s federal policy response.

Industry-Specific Expertise

Different industries have experienced the COVID-19 pandemic in different ways. Recognizing this, the Biden Administration and new Congress are poised to make significant investments in industry specific economic recovery policies. For these policies to succeed, industry leaders must shape them – specifically, business leaders, labor leaders, colleges, training providers, workforce boards, and others who have been a part of successful industry specific workforce training strategies.

Healthcare Panel

Will share recommendations on the Biden Administration’s caregiving workforce initiative and related policies through meetings with the Department of Health and Human Services and Congressional leadership.

Manufacturing Panel

Will share recommendations on the Biden Administration’s Made in All of America initiative and related policies through meetings with the Department of Commerce and Congressional leadership.

Infrastructure Panel

Will share recommendations on the Biden Administration’s Build Back Better initiative and other major infrastructure proposals through meetings with White House advisors, the Departments of Energy and Transportation, and Congressional leadership.

Retail/Hospitality Panel

As two of the hardest hit industries, this taskforce will develop recommendations to inform the Biden Administration’s recovery taskforce through meetings with White House advisors, Department of Labor, and Congressional leadership.

Industry Recovery Panel Perspectives

Read key recommendations from business and labor leaders, community college leaders, training providers, workforce boards, and others on how the healthcare, manufacturing, infrastructure, and retail and hospitality industries can recover from the COVID-19 recession.

Industry Recovery Panel Perspectives: Skills for an Inclusive Healthcare Economy

Jun 23, 2021 Publications

Industry Recovery Panel Perspectives: Skills for an Inclusive Manufacturing Recovery

Jun 23, 2021 Publications

Industry Recovery Panel Perspectives: People-Centered Infrastructure

Jun 23, 2021 Publications

Industry Recovery Panel Perspectives: Skills for an Inclusive Retail & Hospitality Recovery

Jun 23, 2021 Publications

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Release: NSC and BLU announce industry recovery panels

A group of more than 60 national business leaders, labor leaders, community college leaders, industry training providers, and others will serve on four industry recovery panels that will advise the Biden administration and Congress on federal recovery policies in the coming months.

Skills for an Inclusive Economic Recovery

A call to action that will drive our organization’s work over the next two years, Skills for an Inclusive Economic Recovery is a set of generation-defining investments in inclusive skills policy that contribute to addressing the disproportionate impact of the economic crisis on communities who have long suffered inequities.

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