David Durenberger: “in addition, I would like to thank three groups of people I met with in Minnesota during the January recess, trudging…”

“in addition, I would like to thank three groups of people I met with in Minnesota during the January recess, trudging through the snow, who are now designing school-to-work programs that could be assisted by the legislation. The first of these, first on so many of these creative ways of approaching these issues, is the teamsters in Twin Cities, the Teamsters Service Bureau in particular, working with the Service Employees Union, the Communications Workers Union, with educators and employers on an exciting programs called Skills for Tomorrow. Under this workplace literacy project, employees in the trucking, health care, and telecommunications industries are learning valuable job skills in special classes taught during the regular work day. In addition to the workplace literacy project, the Teamster Service Bureau is also partner with other business and education organizations in establishing a new charter public school that would use youth apprenticeships as one of the main means of teaching and learning. The other two groups I met with include educators, labor, and hospital officials in the Twin Cities and in the Duluth-Cloquet, MN, areas who are designing new youth apprenticeship programs in several different health care occupations. Many Members know of my strong interest in health care reform.…”