Overview
- BlackRock, Carhartt, Ford and Google announced the Alliance for America's Skilled Trades to coordinate corporate efforts on training and hiring in the trades.
- The founding companies say they already support training work in 30 states and set three priorities: build the pipeline, scale evidence-based apprenticeships, and expand partnerships.
- The group named Burning Glass and Jobs for the Future as analytic partners to produce reports that track gaps, measure progress and share best practices.
- The Alliance release cites an estimated 2.1 million trades jobs that could go unfilled by 2030 and promotes the trades as routes to above-average pay, but the figure and wage claims were not independently verified in the announcement.
- Key next steps are recruiting industry, labor, education and nonprofit members and publishing measurable outcomes; the announcement did not specify program funding, employer hiring commitments, timelines or operational details.