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:: Sunday, February 29, 2004 ::
How to keep the building boom from going bust By Lyn Danninger
An educated, drug-free workforce is critical, union advocate says
Quality, not quantity, is the issue when addressing questions about whether Hawaii will be able to meet the employment needs of a growing construction industry.
'We can take on work. We have a workforce. The challenge is do we have a qualified workforce?' asked Bruce Coppa, executive director of Pacific Resource Partnership, an advocacy group for union contractors.
Coppa, who also is on the state Land Use Commission, estimates the construction workforce will need anywhere between 8,000 to 12,000 new employees over the next 10 years.
But developing a trained workforce is proving to be problematic, he said.------------------------------------------- posted 8:01 AM :: reference link ::
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