Partnerships

Labor Liaisons

The State Board for Community and Technical Colleges provides funding for two labor liaisons to foster and facilitate partnerships between organized labor, the state’s community and technical colleges, and the SBCTC. Through partnerships with the King County Labor Council and the Washington State Labor Council that began in 1998, these two labor liaisons have focused on strengthening college workforce education and training programs through effective advisory committees and partnerships with organized labor.

For more information about facilitating partnerships with community and technical colleges and organized labor, please contact:

King County Labor Liaison
Joan Weiss, King County Labor Council/Worker Center, AFL-CIO
e-mail: jweiss@wc-kclc.org
web: http://www.kclc.org

Statewide Labor Liaison
Kairie Pierce, Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO
e-mail: kpierce@wslc.org
web: http://www.wslc.org

Business Liaison

The SBCTC provides funding for one business liaison from the Association of Washington Business’s Institute for Workforce Development and Economic Sustainability (IWDES) to foster and facilitate partnerships between businesses and industry, Washington's community and technical colleges, and the SBCTC. The focus of this contract is to strengthen college workforce education and training programs with an emphasis on increasing effectiveness of advisory committees and link the training needs of business and industry to the community colleges.

For more information about facilitating partnerships with community and technical colleges and the business community, please contact:

Statewide Business Liaison
Mike Hudson, Institute for Workforce Development and Economic Sustainability
email: mikeh@awb.org
w Web: http://www.awb.org/workertraining/iwdes.asp