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Workforce

Mike Rowe is giving high school seniors $15k vocational scholarships; first they have to sign the amazing SWEAT pledge

We’ve voiced our fondness for Mike Rowe before. He’s a firm believer that no job is a bad job and that if we want to solve the skilled worker shortage here in the U.S., we need to get younger Americans motivated for careers in the trades. But somehow we had up to this point missed […]

October 17, 2013

Business

Will recruiting Millennials to the construction and manufacturing industries prove impossible?

Last week we told you about a survey by Associated General Contractors of America in which 74 percent of contractors across the U.S. reported having trouble finding skilled workers. The problem, well-known at this point, is that during the recession many of the most skilled operators and craftsmen in this industry either left for more […]

September 12, 2013

Business

Are you our 2014 Contractor of the Year? Apply now

Each year around this time we start the search for our next Contractor of the Year. These are contractors who have successfully managed their companies through the roller coaster of today’s construction economy and our past winners are certainly some of the industry’s best and brightest. Are you proud of your company’s performance and feel […]

August 16, 2013

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

Workforce

Reporter

By Equipment World Staff     Dozer, grader advances highlight Deere’s 175th   This year, John Deere celebrates its 175th year, a history that includes the company’s entry into construction equipment in the mid-1950s. Key products along the way include: 1958: The first all-hydraulic dozer, the Model 64, featured a new six-way power-angle-tilt (PAT) blade. The operator could control tilt, angle, […]

August 28, 2012

Technology

Mike Rowe grants $52K in tech school scholarships

Mike Rowe, AED Foundation, Dirty Jobs, scholarships

May 10, 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