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Opinion: To fix labor shortage, contractors must work to debunk stereotypes, misconceptions around the trades
At ConExpo this year, I had the opportunity to interview Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs and the Mike Rowe Works Foundation about what contractors need to do about the skilled-labor shortage. When people in this industry talk about the labor problem, it’s usually about what others should be doing – schools, government, parents, guidance counselors. All […]
April 6, 2020
Workforce
Talking Trades, Labor Shortage with Mike Rowe (And a Possible Return of Dirty Jobs?)
During ConExpo 2020 we caught up with our friend Mike Rowe. Mike is most known for his long-running show Dirty Jobs, but he’s also a best-selling author and a big proponent for blue collar trades. In this video, Mike and Equipment World‘s Tom Jackson discuss the Mike Rowe Works trade school scholarship, the shortage of […]
March 16, 2020
Business
Mike Rowe opens up about opera, skilled trades and Dirty Jobs (EXCLUSIVE)
All of the new machines are obviously the star of a show like ConExpo. But one of the highlights for the Equipment World team last week at the show was getting to sit down with TV host and newly-minted author Mike Rowe for a conversation on the importance of skilled trades and vocational education. Just […]
March 11, 2014
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Maryland shadow program works to draw high school students to construction training
Through the end of this month a vocational school in Fredrick, Maryland is offering students the opportunity to get a taste of the industry by shadowing its construction training program. The Fredrick County Career and Technology Center (CTC) is the home of several construction technology programs. Each year, the CTC gives its construction students hands-on […]
February 12, 2014
Business
Mike Rowe: “We no longer equate dirt with success. But we should.”
We like Mike Rowe. His Go Build series of TV spots and YouTube videos do a great job of introducing people to the construction industry and trades and how happy and successful you can be in those jobs. He’s honest and outspoken about how our country undervalues vocational training and the skills gap that’s created. […]
August 15, 2013
Workforce
Mike Rowe: American education system undervalues vocational skills
A big advocate for improving vocational training here in the U.S., ‘Dirty Jobs’ star Mike Rowe recently delivered a keynote at the Skills USA event in Kansas City. Before delivering his address at the event, a national competition for high school and college students that puts their vocational skills to the test, Rowe sat down with TV […]
July 17, 2013
Construction Equipment
Machine Matters More
Dirty Jobs Contractors are getting their money’s worth out of skid steer cleanup attachments. Constantly pressured to do more with less, contractors are using skid steer cleanup attachments – such as brooms, sweepers and plows – to efficiently tackle this necessary job. And the cleanup market is expected to be on the […]
June 30, 2012
Construction Equipment
‘I Make America’ campaign turns 1; celebrates with virtual march on D.C. for infrastructure investment
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) and the I Make America campaign celebrated the campaign’s first anniversary, and to mark the occasion, industry supporters held a virtual march on Washington, D.C. AEM called on its supporters to send letters, sign a petition, and call their elected officials in Congress to demand they take a stand […]
October 6, 2011
Roadbuilding
‘I Make America’ campaign turns 1; celebrates with virtual march on D.C. for infrastructure investment
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) and the I Make America campaign celebrated the campaign’s first anniversary, and to mark the occasion, industry supporters held a virtual march on Washington, D.C. AEM called on its supporters to send letters, sign a petition, and call their elected officials in Congress to demand they take a stand […]
October 6, 2011
Construction Equipment
Rowe helps ‘make America’
The Association of Equipment Manufacturers and Mike Rowe, creator and host of Discovery Channel’s “Dirty Jobs,” launched “I Make America” in Washington, D.C., Wednesday. “I Make America” is a national grassroots campaign to promote U.S. manufacturing jobs through infrastructure investment and passage of export agreements. Since 2001, more than 4.7 million manufacturing jobs have been […]
October 5, 2010
Business
Dirty Jobs’ Mike Rowe helps ‘make America’
Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) and Mike Rowe, creator and host of Discovery Channel’s “Dirty Jobs,” joined forces today in Washington, D.C. for the launch of I Make America, a national grassroots campaign to promote U.S. manufacturing jobs through infrastructure investment and passage of export agreements. Infrastructure investment and export agreements are proven ways to create […]
September 29, 2010
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Rowe to speak to Congress
Mike Rowe, from Discovery Channel’s “Dirty Jobs,” is taking on Congress Sept. 29. Rowe will speak to members of Congress, staffers and the media about the importance of manufacturing to the health of the economy and American jobs. He’ll be introducing local workers from across the United States who depend on manufacturing to tell their […]
September 27, 2010
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