How to Not Retire Until You’re Good and Ready
Bring your dad to work. It could help solve the skilled-labor shortage.
How to Encourage Cross-Generational Collaboration in Construction
Generations separated by decades have much to learn from each other—and might have more in common than you think.
Bridging Construction’s Gender Gap
Tactics to consider when recruiting women to the construction workforce.
This Women-Led Business Is Redefining Construction Workwear
Female landscapers in the Pacific Northwest have designed the perfect pair of work pants—plus, other clothing and gear for women in the trades.
One Day at a Time
Looking for quality craft workers but lacking the time or expertise to hire and train them? The ‘supplemental labor’ model might be for you.
Trading Up: ABC’s 2023 Craft Professional of the Year, Jared Foster
‘I wish when I was in high school that I had what they have now, and that is people who are invested in the trades, actually pushing for people going to the trades.’
Filling the Boomer Gap
Construction companies were already struggling with a massive talent shortage—but now its effects are being multiplied by the large-scale retirement of baby boomers, who are taking incalculable skills and experience with them. Replacing them will require finding new ways of telling the full story of what it means to be a craft professional.
Yes, She Can
ABC Greater Michigan is on a mission to empower
young girls to explore careers in construction.
