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The workforce is probably as demoralized as any of us would be if our jobs were flailing, our pay was cut in half, our benefits were cut out and our pensions were taken away. Expecting the workforce to be as customer-oriented as it has been in the past is probably not reasonable.

The Workforce Investment Improvement Act of 2012 would consolidate and eliminate dozens of ineffective or duplicative programs, enhance the role of job creators in workforce development decisions, and improve accountability over the use of taxpayer dollars.

It was the strongest signal possible to the market that Boeing was here to stay. It also energized the workforce and led to a complete change in attitude.

The surprisingly weak quantitative literacy ability of many college graduates is troubling. A knowledgeable workforce is vital to cope with the increasing demands of the global marketplace.

Probably the most important ingredient of a competitive region is the workforce. And we can either import our workforce, or we can train and support our own workforce to make sure everyone can participate. If all those pieces are in place, we can have a high-growth economy where everyone can participate.

Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality.

So you have a workforce that is supporting an agenda for change.

Companies need to come up with a workforce plan that details how they can continue to meet their own changing needs.

Detroit, when it comes to the quick casual restaurant business, has done extremely well. When you look at the volume compared to other cities, Detroit is always on the top tier. You have a very strong workforce that tends to eat out every day.

Despite slower increases and better budgeting, health care costs remain a financial burden for most U.S. employers. Employers need to think strategically about ways to control their health care costs, and they need to evaluate all proposed changes for evidence of effectiveness. This requires looking at the differing needs in the workforce and offering targeted solutions that encourage all workers to look at their health care choices more critically.

An educated, well-trained workforce is the key to our state's economic prosperity. We need to take down the no vacancy sign and ensure we are focusing on the needs of both today and tomorrow's employers.

A wholly unrealistic mandate to compete against itself with an aging fleet, aging workforce and and ailing infrastructure make a public accounting of the Coastal Ferry Act a necessity.

A well-trained workforce is critical to small-business success. What I hear from business is that it's hard to find help that meets their needs.

A workforce reduction of 10 to 15 percent (3,800 to 5,700 people) now seems more likely, but may not be enough to satisfy current investor expectations.

That they are 5 percent of the workforce - it's a sign of their significance. How much would a house cost without all the construction jobs done by immigrants? What would happen to the service industry?

That's not affordable. The future workforce for launch vehicles can't be as big as it is for shuttle.

This is not just a career-development day. Considering that the majority of our workforce is involved in a small business, it's important that girls be exposed to a wide range of jobs, and learn that small-business owners wear lots of different hats.

This is a more militant union that most public sector unions. These workers face on a daily basis far more difficult working conditions than the standard government employee. The workers as a group feel management is too heavy-handed. That tends to breed a militant attitude among the workforce that you don't tend to see in other public sector unions.

They offered the employees training, and I took the opportunity to do that. They put me in touch with the Tennessee Community Workforce Development Center in Gatlinburg, took a couple of tests and they told me what my options were as far as programs I can get into. I chose the EMT. I had thought about going into the medical field, and that was just an opportunity for me to do so.

This plant closing is not a reflection on the strong workforce we have in Huntington. They are a talented and dedicated group. We have determined that with certain programs winding down at this facility, the most effective course of action is to better align our available capacity with the market, and make our overall cost structure more competitive.

The remainder of the site is now safe. The workforce will be returning to all other areas from tomorrow morning.

This makes updating workforce skills particularly important. People really need to have their skills fine-tuned to have skills that are in demand and match those available overseas.

This is the voice of the voiceless. We are part of the workforce of this country.

There just aren't enough Americans in the workforce to pay our retirees the benefits they've been promised - unless we make some changes.

There is this great need in the economy for a workforce that is not going to be addressed by American workers.

It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

It's a very small percentage of our overall workforce that was impacted.

Its a compromise, but then you have a brand issue here and a responsibility to the community. We also have a huge workforce with major skills, and our view would be to keep those skills here.

It's absolutely necessary that our employees have access to the Internet, ... The bottom line is this: The world is moving incredibly fast and the Internet is moving faster, and we must have a workforce that keeps up.

For a mother who has been out of the workforce raising her children an excellent first place to stop is a staffing firm who will help her do a skills inventory checklist. She may have skills that even she can't identify that are in demand or she may need help picking up the skills she lacks.

It shows there's an available workforce, and with a good school system and college with a technology center, it certainly speaks that we have a workforce and we have the facilities to train that workforce.

Con Edison is committed to its 13,200 employees, who serve nine million New Yorkers in one of the most diverse communities in the world. We appreciate Diversity Inc 's recognition of the company's success in developing a workforce that reflects the neighborhoods we serve in New York City and Westchester County.

Even when the economy is fully recovered and companies are back in expansion mode, we may not see a revival in hiring of the rank-and-file worker. Cost containment oriented companies, in an effort to become more agile in this increasingly competitive global marketplace, will rely more an more on a just-in-time workforce of contract and contingent workers.

It's clear we don't have enough workers with math and science degrees and in a workforce of 140m a cap of 65,000 is way too low. The cap has filled almost immediately over the past two years.

It's clearly understood that there is going to be a reduction in the workforce as we move away from the space shuttle era and into the Crew Exploration Vehicle era. What happens in serial processing is that the workforce reduction would happen a lot sooner.

It's between 35,000 and 45,000 women, all low-income, many of them desperately poor and many of them attempting to get back into the workforce and finding a significant obstacle: the state of their teeth.

They did not expect the workforce to do what it did. Instead of the very rich and the very poor, you have people in between, and the unions are protecting them.

Any time you have people that you don't need, you're going to lose money, ... I suspect they're adjusting their workforce to the work they do. If they don't, they can't survive.

Skilled accountants are always in demand, and companies that proactively seek top candidates will be best prepared to take advantage of new business opportunities. A shrinking labor pool, created by low enrollment in accounting programs during the late 1990s and the expected exodus of millions of baby boomers from the workforce in the coming years, has intensified the competition for these professionals, mandating that recruiting be an ongoing process for companies of all sizes.

The Kinston factory is our manufacturing hub for dishwashers. The combination of the factory and its background in producing fine dishwashers, and the workforce available there to build this super product, made us decide on Kinston.

The Kinston factory is our manufacturing hub for dishwashers, ... The combination of the factory and its background in producing fine dishwashers, and the workforce available there to build this super product, made us decide on Kinston.

The (Michoud) facility is in pretty good shape. The question is, what does the workforce want to do?

I hope that the administration and DHS management take a good hard look at the results of today's ranking and make the connection that an engaged workforce is necessary to an effective department,

Impact 360 transforms the speed at which companies can make informed decisions with unmatched visibility into customer service processes, workforce performance and customer intelligence across the enterprise. Companies need to unify workforce optimization functions under a single architecture to maximize information flow and minimize total cost of ownership. They also need experienced professional services to drive a complete view of customer service performance and to ensure ongoing success. By improving the balance between effectiveness and efficiency, businesses can drive customer loyalty, top line revenue, customer service operating margins and compliance through continuous performance improvement.

If one examines the workforce there is quite a significant number of people who would not qualify for the benefits.

If you have a workforce that enjoys each other, they trust each other, they trust management, they're proud of where they work - then they're going to deliver a good product.

In order to have a skilled workforce to draw on now and in the future, Michigan's education system needs to improve at all levels. Passage of legislation this year to mandate stronger high school graduation standards is important to manufacturers, as is raising the cap on charter public schools to provide families more quality choices.

Investing in high-quality early childhood education has extraordinary returns, not only for Virginia's children, but also for our workforce and economy. The best investments are made in community-grown programs that truly meet local needs.

California has a window of opportunity to prepare the highly educated workforce we need to maintain our position as an economic leader.

Because these executives see a connection between their company health benefit plan, employee health, and workforce productivity, they have a vested interest in maintaining and improving employee health. There also may be a connection between providing healthcare information and improved workforce health.

Changing demographics present an economic challenge that must be met by finding the most cost-effective ways to deliver early childhood services. We must prepare our young people, regardless of socio-economic position, to be an intelligent workforce and savvy consumers.

I don't think we ever had a point where we didn't believe that the ballpark was going to be ready on Opening Day. The productivity of the workforce was at an incredibly high level, and we were blessed with great weather. We've been running ahead of schedule for quite some time.

I am personally overseeing changes that include the establishment of a global health emergency workforce.

These folks are customers in our stores, employees in our workforce. We're doing everything we can to cultivate stronger skills in that population so that they're a more important part of our workforce in the future.

This is much more than a public health issue and it's not just an issue for those who have poultry flocks. People have to eat and therefore businesses need to ask themselves the question - how would we continue to operate, to serve our customers and the public in general, if 40% of our workforce couldn't go to work for two to four weeks. Any community that fails to prepare with the expectation that the federal government will at the last moment be able to come to the rescue will be tragically wrong.

This is a great partnership between the state, local government and an outstanding corporate citizen. It says a lot about our workforce and business climate when companies already here choose to expand.

This is a group that's more heavily involved in the workforce and may be more affected by changes.

This is a clear message from the workforce to the management to listen to them and be honest about the future.

The high cost of housing not only keeps the workforce from purchasing homes in South County, it also makes it next to impossible for them to find apartments they can afford,

The immigrant workforce is still keeping the housing market afloat to some extent.

You've got to compete against the large employer for the workforce and it costs you more to do that,

And I think we're going to have a healthier and a better educated workforce if the president's budget requests for increases are approved.

The economic repercussions are profound. The recovery is going to be slowed. Your workforce is not going to be reliable.

The EEOC had been pretty active in taking on some of these companies, but I'm sure their resources are limited. We see this problem. We see it pretty frequently ... Women have been in the farm labor workforce for generations, it's not new. But discrimination is an issue.

The effectiveness of that is in question. You need to reconnect the training to actual Pennsylvanians in actual jobs. There is a more pressing need to upgrade the training of the existing workforce so that they have the cutting-edge skills and are keeping up with the technology.

The Coast Guard wants to make its workforce reflective of the population of the United States,

The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how vital a diverse intelligence workforce is to our national security.

The competition will be fierce for first-time job seekers this year. Not only are there fewer jobs, but the pool of candidates is bigger, ... In addition to their classmates, college graduates will be competing with jobless people formerly in the workforce for one to three years...

The dependency of organizations on the engagement and productivity of its workforce makes attention to human capital during organizational change a critical priority.

We firmly believe that if enough members of the business community step forward, applying positive employment policies in their own workforce and mentoring other companies, that fact will change,