National Skills Coalition (NSC) and Business Leaders United for Workforce Partnerships (BLU) has convened a Retail/Hospitality Industry Recovery Panel of industry leaders and experts to share recommendations on the Biden Administration’s recovery taskforce through meetings with White House advisers, Department of Labor, and Congressional leadership.
Consistent with our Inclusive Economic Recovery framework, we want to ensure these initiatives 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.
Kim Becicka, Vice President, Continuing Education & Training Services, Kirkwood Community College
Elisabeth Buck, President, United Way of Central Iowa
Ryan Campbell, Owner, Chris’ Caribbean Bistro
Monica Ford, President & CEO, Nevada Partners
Holly Kurtz, Director, Workforce Development, Center for the Future of Arizona
John Lloyd, Executive Director, BEST Corp
Dan Miller, Organizing Director, UNITE HERE Local 1
Karin Norington Reaves, CEO, Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership
Andrea Reay, President and CEO, Seattle Southside Chamber of Commerce
Lisa Schumacher, Director of Education Strategies, McDonald’s Corporation
Sekou Siby, Executive Director, ROC United
Gretchen Stroud, Senior Vice President, Talent, Hilton
Sean Thurman, Workforce Issues Director, Walmart
Leigh Uhlir, Associate Dean of Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management, Kendall College at National Louis University
Laura Ward, Senior Vice President for Talent Development, Nashville Area Chamber
Nathalie Weister, Director, Talent and Leadership Development, Americas, Hilton
Charnetia Young, Senior Manager of Workforce Initiatives, CVS Health Business Development
IRP Perspectives: Skills for an Inclusive Retail & Hospitality Recovery
Read key recommendations from our Retail & Hospitality Industry Recovery Panel experts offered to the Biden administration and Congress.
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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.
Learn MoreNSC and BLU have also convened three other Industry Recovery Panels:
Release: NSC and BLU convening workforce advisory panels
A group of nearly 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.
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