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Career night aims at signing up more Cleveland-area women for construction apprenticeships
With the area’s number of women working in construction and the the trades dead even with the national average of 3 percent, trade groups in Northeast Ohio are looking to change that. The Cleveland Building and Construction Trades Council’s Tradeswomen Committee will host a career night on Tuesday, February 24 from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Plumbers […]
February 22, 2015
Business
Despite being among the only jobs that can’t be outsourced, U.S. is largely blind to construction industry’s worth
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article about the need for more apprenticeships. Sure enough, it contained a misconception common to just about everything you read in the media about construction in this country today. Author Lauren Weber opened with the statement nobody questions, that more apprenticeships are needed to fill the skills gap. […]
May 1, 2014
Business
Central Texas Tool Company a family-run machine shop from a bygone era
No computers. Drawings done in the dirt. 100 year-old machines driven by overhead belts. Some might think that the Central Texas Tool Company is an anachronism, serving no purpose in this high-tech, 24/7 global economy. The members of the Carpenter family that run the shop jokingly call it “a working museum” and some of the […]
April 3, 2013
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