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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A subordinate of President Donald Trump's Cabinet was successful Clovis connected Friday. U.S. Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is connected her 'America astatine Work' listening tour, wherever she aims to beryllium down with workers and assemblage leaders and usage their conversations to amended national labour policies and practices.
Fresno County's Economic Development Corporation (EDC) and different manufacturing partners held a roundtable Friday astatine Wawona Frozen Foods to showcase the wins and challenges successful the Central Valley to Secretary Chavez-DeRemer and Congressman Vince Fong.
"It was important to person this gathering on-site of a section manufacturer, a nutrient manufacturer," said Fresno County's EDC President and CEO Will Oliver.
Secretary Chavez-DeRemer will sojourn each 50 states, but this sojourn was peculiarly peculiar for the attendees and Madam Secretary herself. She was born and raised successful Hanford and is simply a Fresno State graduate.
"So we bash consciousness similar we person 1 of our ain representing america astatine 1 of the highest levels of national government," Oliver said.
During the roundtable, the EDC showcased the occurrence and section interaction of the Good Jobs program.
"We talked astir the continuum of grooming opportunities that we're making disposable to vale residents to conscionable the demands of our employers wrong those captious sectors," Oliver explained.
So far, the programme has produced 600 graduates and placed implicit 340 workers successful Madera, Fresno, Kings, and Tulare counties. Chavez-Deremer was impressed.
"Hearing this is conscionable euphony to my ears astir each the things that hap connected the crushed successful a community, and past taking that to Congress, and past into the president's cabinet. That's wherefore helium wants america connected the ground, due to the fact that present we tin capitalize connected what everybody's already doing," she said.
Just this week, President Donald Trump signed an enforcement bid to modernize American workforce programs. This inaugural prioritizes commercialized schools, assemblage colleges, and programs similar Good Jobs, which rapidly amended and hole students to re-enter the workforce.
"They privation the adjacent level of skill, and they can't instrumentality 2 to 5 years to fig it out. The apprenticeship program, the president is precise focused, dense connected a cardinal apprentices passim this country, and I cognize we tin bash it, and it's really not that hard to bash if we accidental absorption and support talking," Chavez-DeRemer explained.
